Copying stuff from vim running in putty

Question

I am running Vim 6.3 through putty and putty connection manager. I have the mouse option set (set mouse = a). I am able to paste things from the (windows) clipboard to vim by but selecting text in vim isn't copying anything to the clipboard. Does anyone know how do I do this?

Note: I can't update Vim to a newer version.

Answer 1

Hold down shift, and then highlight the text you want to copy using the left mouse button. When you release, the highlighted text should be in the Windows clipboard.

Answer 2

You can select some text with the mouse and then type:
"*y to yank the selected text to the clipboard, then you should be able to use the clipboard content in another application.

if "*y is to cumbersome to type, you can put the following in host .vimrc
:noremap y "*y

Answer 3

Ctrl-Insert to copy, Shift-Insert to paste

Answer 4

Do not use mouse=a.
Put the mouse in commandline mode (:set mouse=c).
Then you can just select your text to put it in the system clipboard (as with all other PUTTY/KITTY commands),

Answer 5

set clipboard=unnamed or set mouse=c