Right-click pasting from PuTTY on Windows 10

[pcgeek86]

Vim 8.0 is pretty rad, and has some incredible new features! Unfortunately, it broke one of my common workflows, when copying and pasting text into a document.

Typical Scenario

From a Windows 10 Anniversary Update client ...

• Open a web browser, copy / paste some text from a website (eg. GitHub)
• Use PuTTY 0.67 to SSH to a Linux VM (eg. Ubuntu 16 Xenial Xerus)
• Open a file in Vim
• Hit i to change into Insert mode
• Right-click to paste the clipboard contents

Issue Description

Unfortunately, when I right-click in the PuTTY session, rather than pasting clipboard contents, what's actually happening is that Vim is going from INSERT mode to (insert) VISUAL mode. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this before. Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can paste my Windows client clipboard into the SSH / Vim session?

Cheers,
Trevor Sullivan
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Microsoft MVP: Cloud & Data Center Management
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[k-takata]

Check your 'mouse' setting with :set mouse?.
If you include vimrc_example.vim from your .vimrc, the setting of 'mouse' will be changed after Vim 8.

FYI, Shift+Ins might be also used to paste on PuTTY.

[pcgeek86]

Thanks @k-takata -- I fixed this problem by using:

:set mouse=

[Expire0]

I am wondering if this is a bug was by design in VIM 8? The same is happening via Fedora 25. When right clicking it put you into visual mode. The only fix is to add set mouse-=a or set mouse= to .vimrc

[pcgeek86]

A couple years later ... I ran into this same issue again, and SHIFT + INSERT works perfectly as well. Thanks again.

[Stefan300381]

this helped me in 2020 ;-) thanks

[hecko]

this helped me in 2020 ;-) thanks

and now me in 2021! :)

[theGidy]

and it still helps :)

[ThBexx]

you made my day! Thank you

[mpolitze]

cheers from 2023!