I just tried to select thousands of lines in PuTTY, and it was painfully slow. It doesn’t seem like any keyboard shortcuts work, so I had to hold down the left mouse button and drag the mouse cursor to the bottom of the screen. Then once the mouse cursor reached the bottom of the screen, the selecting of text stopped. This is different behavior from, say, Microsoft Word, where if the mouse cursor reaches the bottom of the screen, it will continue scrolling down and selecting text automatically as long as you keep holding the left mouse button down.
So once the mouse cursor reached the bottom of the screen in PuTTY, I had to continue moving the mouse down to continue scrolling down and selecting text. Once my mouse reached the edge of my desk, I accidentally let go of the left mouse button, and I had to start all over again.
Then I was able to have it continue scrolling down and selecting more text by moving the mouse cursor side to side along the bottom of the screen. This was still painfully slow, and it took well over a minute to select all of the text I needed. Is there any quicker way to select thousands of lines in PuTTY?
