-\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.70 2003/10/08 20:09:55 owen Exp $
+\versionid $Id: config.but,v 1.74 2004/02/07 23:49:21 jacob Exp $
\C{config} Configuring PuTTY
in Unicode. For good Unicode-supporting fonts this is probably the
most reliable and functional option.
-\H{config-selection} The Selection panel
-
-The Selection panel allows you to control the way copy and paste
-work in the PuTTY window.
-
-\S{config-linedrawpaste} Controlling the pasting of line drawing
+\S{config-linedrawpaste} Controlling copy and paste of line drawing
characters
\cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.linedraw}
contains VT100 line and box drawing characters, PuTTY will paste
them in the form they appear on the screen: either Unicode line
drawing code points, or the \q{poor man's} line-drawing characters
-\c{+}, \c{-} and \c{|}. The checkbox \q{Paste VT100 line drawing
-chars as lqqqk} disables this feature, so line-drawing characters
-will be pasted as the ASCII characters that were printed to produce
-them. This will typically mean they come out mostly as \c{q} and
-\c{x}, with a scattering of \c{jklmntuvw} at the corners. This might
-be useful if you were trying to recreate the same box layout in
-another program, for example.
+\c{+}, \c{-} and \c{|}. The checkbox \q{Copy and paste VT100 line
+drawing chars as lqqqk} disables this feature, so line-drawing
+characters will be pasted as the ASCII characters that were printed
+to produce them. This will typically mean they come out mostly as
+\c{q} and \c{x}, with a scattering of \c{jklmntuvw} at the corners.
+This might be useful if you were trying to recreate the same box
+layout in another program, for example.
Note that this option only applies to line-drawing characters which
\e{were} printed by using the VT100 mechanism. Line-drawing
characters displayed using Unicode will paste as Unicode always.
+\H{config-selection} The Selection panel
+
+The Selection panel allows you to control the way copy and paste
+work in the PuTTY window.
+
\S{config-rtfpaste} Pasting in Rich Text Format
\cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.rtf}
\cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.buttons}
-PuTTY's copy and paste mechanism is modelled on the Unix \c{xterm}
-application. The X Window System uses a three-button mouse, and the
-convention is that the left button selects, the right button extends
-an existing selection, and the middle button pastes.
+PuTTY's copy and paste mechanism is by default modelled on the Unix
+\c{xterm} application. The X Window System uses a three-button mouse,
+and the convention is that the left button selects, the right button
+extends an existing selection, and the middle button pastes.
-Windows typically only has two mouse buttons, so in PuTTY's default
-configuration, the \e{right} button pastes, and the \e{middle}
-button (if you have one) extends a selection.
+Windows often only has two mouse buttons, so in PuTTY's default
+configuration (\q{Compromise}), the \e{right} button pastes, and the
+\e{middle} button (if you have one) extends a selection.
If you have a three-button mouse and you are already used to the
\c{xterm} arrangement, you can select it using the \q{Action of
mouse buttons} control.
+Alternatively, with the \q{Windows} option selected, the middle
+button extends, and the right button brings up a context menu (on
+which one of the options is \q{Paste}). (This context menu is always
+available by holding down Ctrl and right-clicking, regardless of the
+setting of this option.)
+
\S{config-mouseshift} \q{Shift overrides application's use of mouse}
\cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.shiftdrag}
PuTTY can use single-DES to interoperate with
these servers if you enable the \q{Enable legacy use of single-DES in
SSH 2} option; by default this is disabled and PuTTY will stick to
-the standard.
+recommended ciphers.
\H{config-ssh-auth} The Auth panel
box, and click the \q{Remove} button.
In the \q{Source port} box, you can also optionally enter an IP
-address to listen on. Typically a Windows machine can be asked to
-listen on any single IP address in the \cw{127.*.*.*} range, and all
-of these are loopback addresses available only to the local machine.
-So if you forward (for example) \c{127.0.0.5:79} to a remote
-machine's \cw{finger} port, then you should be able to run commands
-such as \c{finger fred@127.0.0.5}. This can be useful if the program
-connecting to the forwarded port doesn't allow you to change the
-port number it uses. This feature is available for local-to-remote
-forwarded ports; SSH1 is unable to support it for remote-to-local
-ports, while SSH2 can support it in theory but servers will not
-necessarily cooperate.
+address to listen on, by specifying (for instance) \c{127.0.0.5:79}.
+See \k{using-port-forwarding} for more information on how this
+works and its restrictions.
\S{config-ssh-portfwd-localhost} Controlling the visibility of
forwarded ports
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