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I'm PuTTYing into a Linux machine from a Windows computer. I'm opening up a large log file in vim and am having enormous difficulty trying to figure out how to select all the text and copy it into a clipboard that PuTTY can access. Then I can paste it into an editor back on my Windows machine.

All the online tutorials I found on this do not work for me, I suspect, because I am using PuTTY as the "middle man". And thus, PuTTY is not able to transfer from the Linux clipboard to my Windows clipboard, etc.

How do I do this?!?!

Thanks in advance!

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I'm not a Windows user so i don't know PuTTY but, if you can't find a setting somewhere in PuTTY to allow some kind of "clipboard sharing", the best thing to do would be to scp the log file to your local machine. or use Vim on the remote machine as it's certainly more powerful than whatever editor you are using locally. – romainl Feb 8 at 18:47
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If you just want to open the file in a local editor, why not use WinSCP to grab it and open it that way? – FatalError Feb 8 at 18:58
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You can't access any of vim's cut-buffers fom Putty.

Putty can cut marked text from it's scrollable screen buffer but that doesn't do what you want when you need to select more lines than can be viewed in the Putty window because vim doesn't populate the scroll-buffer of Putty because it uses curses escape codes to redraw pages.

Putty comes with an SCP client pscp you can use to transfer the log file to a PC

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