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Update copy and paste documentation.
Rewrite the "Using PuTTY" section for 'clipboard-generality', and also explain why we default to mouse-based selection, interaction with other applications via PRIMARY when running PuTTY on Unix, and bracketed-paste mode. Also add lots of index terms.
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\cfg{winhelp-topic}{selection.buttons}
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PuTTY's copy and paste mechanism is by default modelled on the Unix
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\c{xterm} application. The X Window System uses a three-button mouse,
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\i\c{xterm} application. The X Window System uses a three-button mouse,
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and the convention is that the \i{left button} \I{selecting text}selects,
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the \i{right button} extends an existing selection, and the
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\i{middle button} pastes.
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@ -1474,21 +1474,24 @@ you have to hold down Alt to get the \e{normal} behaviour.
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Here you can configure which clipboard(s) are written or read by
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PuTTY's various copy and paste actions.
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The X Window System provides multiple clipboards (or \q{selections}),
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and many applications support more than one of them by a different
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user interface mechanism.
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The X Window System (which underlies most Unix graphical interfaces)
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provides multiple clipboards (or \q{\i{selections}}), and many
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applications support more than one of them by a different user
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interface mechanism.
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The two most commonly used selections are called \cq{PRIMARY} and
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\cq{CLIPBOARD}; in applications supporting both, the usual behaviour
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is that \cw{PRIMARY} is used by mouse-only actions (selecting text
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automatically copies it to \cw{PRIMARY}, and middle-clicking pastes
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from \cw{PRIMARY}), whereas \cw{CLIPBOARD} is used by explicit Copy
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and Paste menu items or keypresses such as Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V.
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The two most commonly used selections are called \cq{\i{PRIMARY}} and
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\cq{\I{CLIPBOARD selection}CLIPBOARD}; in applications supporting both,
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the usual behaviour is that \cw{PRIMARY} is used by mouse-only actions
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(selecting text automatically copies it to \cw{PRIMARY}, and
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\i{middle-clicking} pastes from \cw{PRIMARY}), whereas \cw{CLIPBOARD}
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is used by explicit Copy and Paste menu items or keypresses such as
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\i{Ctrl-C} and \i{Ctrl-V}.
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On other platforms, where there is a single system clipboard, PuTTY
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provides a second clipboard-like facility by permitting you to paste
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the text you last selected in \e{this window}, whether or not it is
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currently also in the system clipboard.
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On other platforms such as Windows, where there is a single system
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clipboard, PuTTY provides a second clipboard-like facility by permitting
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you to paste the text you last selected in \e{this window}, whether or
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not it is currently also in the system clipboard. This is not enabled
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by default.
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\S2{config-selection-autocopy} \q{Auto-copy selected text}
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@ -1512,15 +1515,15 @@ will \e{also} be placed in \cq{CLIPBOARD} at the same time.
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PuTTY has three user-interface actions which can be configured to
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paste into the terminal (not counting menu items). You can click
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whichever mouse button (if any) is configured to paste (see
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\k{config-mouse}); you can press Shift-Ins; or you can press
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Ctrl-Shift-V, although that action is not enabled by default.
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\k{config-mouse}); you can press \i{Shift-Ins}; or you can press
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\i{Ctrl-Shift-V}, although that action is not enabled by default.
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You can configure which of the available clipboards each of these
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actions pastes from (including turning the paste action off
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completely). On platforms with a single system clipboard, the
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available options are to paste from that clipboard or to paste from
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PuTTY's internal memory of the last selected text within that window.
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On X, the standard options are \cw{CLIPBOARD} or \cw{PRIMARY}.
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PuTTY's internal memory of the \i{last selected text} within that
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window. On X, the standard options are \cw{CLIPBOARD} or \cw{PRIMARY}.
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(\cw{PRIMARY} is conceptually similar in that it \e{also} refers to
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the last selected text \dash just across all applications instead of
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@ -1528,11 +1531,11 @@ just this window.)
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The two keyboard options each come with a corresponding key to copy
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\e{to} the same clipboard. Whatever you configure Shift-Ins to paste
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from, Ctrl-Ins will copy to the same location; similarly, Ctrl-Shift-C
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will copy to whatever Ctrl-Shift-V pastes from.
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from, \i{Ctrl-Ins} will copy to the same location; similarly,
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\i{Ctrl-Shift-C} will copy to whatever Ctrl-Shift-V pastes from.
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On X, you can also enter a selection name of your choice. For example,
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there is a rarely-used standard selection called \cq{SECONDARY}, which
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there is a rarely-used standard selection called \cq{\i{SECONDARY}}, which
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Emacs (for example) can work with if you hold down the Meta key while
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dragging to select or clicking to paste; if you configure a PuTTY
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keyboard action to access this clipboard, then you can interoperate
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\IM{three-button mouse} mouse, three-button
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\IM{left mouse button}{left button} left mouse button
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\IM{middle mouse button}{middle button} middle mouse button
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\IM{middle mouse button}{middle button}{middle-clicking} middle mouse button
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\IM{right mouse button}{right button} right mouse button
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\IM{selecting words}{word-by-word selection} selecting whole words
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\IM{right mouse button, with Ctrl} right mouse button, with Ctrl
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\IM{right mouse button, with Ctrl} Ctrl, with right mouse button
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\IM{selections} selections, multiple
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\IM{selections} clipboards, multiple
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\IM{PRIMARY} \c{PRIMARY} selection
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\IM{PRIMARY} selection, \c{PRIMARY}
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\IM{CLIPBOARD selection} \c{CLIPBOARD} selection
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\IM{CLIPBOARD selection} selection, \c{CLIPBOARD}
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\IM{SECONDARY} \c{SECONDARY} selection
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\IM{SECONDARY} selection, \c{SECONDARY}
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\IM{system menu} system menu
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\IM{system menu} menu, system
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\IM{system menu} window menu
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\IM{remote-controlled printing} printing, remote-controlled
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\IM{remote-controlled printing} passthrough printing
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\IM{Control-H} Control-H
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\IM{Control-H} Ctrl-H
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\IM{Control-?} Control-?
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\IM{Control-?} Ctrl-?
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\IM{Home and End keys} Home key
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\IM{Home and End keys} End key
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paste (for example) URLs into a web browser, or paste from a word
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processor or spreadsheet into your terminal session.
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PuTTY's copy and paste works entirely with the \i{mouse}. In order
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to copy text to the clipboard, you just click the \i{left mouse
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button} in the \i{terminal window}, and drag to \I{selecting text}select
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text. When you let go of the button, the text is \e{automatically}
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copied to the clipboard. You do not need to press Ctrl-C or
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Ctrl-Ins; in fact, if you do press Ctrl-C, PuTTY will send a Ctrl-C
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character down your session to the server where it will probably
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cause a process to be interrupted.
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By default, PuTTY's copy and paste works entirely with the \i{mouse}.
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(This will be familiar to people who have used \i\c{xterm} on Unix.)
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In order to copy text to the clipboard, you just click the \i{left
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mouse button} in the \i{terminal window}, and drag to
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\I{selecting text}select text. When you let go of the button, the text
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is \e{automatically} copied to the clipboard. You do not need to press
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\i{Ctrl-C} or \i{Ctrl-Ins}; in fact, if you do press Ctrl-C, PuTTY will
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send a Ctrl-C character down your session to the server where it will
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probably cause a process to be interrupted.
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Pasting is done using the right button (or the middle mouse button,
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if you have a \i{three-button mouse} and have set it up; see
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Pasting into PuTTY is done using the right button (or the middle mouse
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button, if you have a \i{three-button mouse} and have set it up; see
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\k{config-mouse}). (Pressing \i{Shift-Ins}, or selecting \q{Paste}
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from the \I{right mouse button, with Ctrl}Ctrl+right-click
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\i{context menu}, have the same effect.) When
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you click the \i{right mouse button}, PuTTY will read whatever is in
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the Windows clipboard and paste it into your session, \e{exactly} as
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if it had been typed at the keyboard. (Therefore, be careful of
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pasting formatted text into an editor that does automatic indenting;
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you may find that the spaces pasted from the clipboard plus the
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spaces added by the editor add up to too many spaces and ruin the
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formatting. There is nothing PuTTY can do about this.)
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the Windows clipboard and paste it into your session. By default, this
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behaves \e{exactly} as if the clipboard contents had been typed at the
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keyboard; therefore, be careful of pasting formatted text into an
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editor that does automatic \i{indenting}, as you may find that the spaces
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pasted from the clipboard plus the spaces added by the editor add up
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to too many spaces and ruin the formatting. (Some remote applications
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can ask PuTTY to identify text that is being pasted, to avoid this
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sort of problem; but if your application does not, there is nothing
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PuTTY can do to avoid this.)
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If you \i{double-click} the left mouse button, PuTTY will
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\I{selecting words}select a whole word. If you double-click, hold
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instead.) Click the button on the screen, and you can pick up the
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nearest end of the selection and drag it to somewhere else.
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If you are running PuTTY itself on Unix (not just using it to connect
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to a Unix system from Windows), by default you will likely have to use
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similar mouse actions in other applications to paste the text you
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copied from PuTTY, and to copy text for pasting into PuTTY; actions
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like \i{Ctrl-C} and Ctrl-V will likely not behave as you expect.
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\K{config-clipboards} explains why this is, and how you can change the
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behaviour. (On Windows there is only a single selection shared with other
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applications, so this confusion does not arise.)
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It's possible for the server to ask to \I{mouse reporting}handle mouse
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clicks in the PuTTY window itself. If this happens, the \i{mouse pointer}
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will turn into an arrow, and using the mouse to copy and paste will only
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\k{config-mouseshift} for details of this feature and how to configure
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it.
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You can customise much of this behaviour, for instance to enable copy
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and paste from the keyboard; see \k{config-selection}.
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\S{using-scrollback} \I{scrollback}Scrolling the screen back
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PuTTY keeps track of text that has scrolled up off the top of the
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