TinyTERM version 4.x has the capability to program the mouse buttons for a number of functions. The most popular are copying and pasting text. TinyTERM 4.30 and higher have a right-click menu for those functions, but it can also be programmed in earlier versions.

To set this up, open the Edit menu and select Session Properties. Go to the Mouse tab. For the button you want to program (left, middle or right), change the option to “Send custom string.”

To copy text, enter the custom string:

%o

and click OK. You will need to select text before you can copy it. The left mouse button selects text by default.

To select text, drag the cursor over it. When you click to copy, the cursor must be in the TinyTERM window, but it does not have to be on the selected text. The selected text will be copied to the Windows clipboard, then the selection will be canceled.

To paste text, enter the custom string:

%p

and click OK. Clicking the programmed mouse button anywhere in the TinyTERM window will then paste the current text from the Windows clipboard to the current cursor position. It will not paste the text anywhere you click, but only at the host’s current cursor location.

You can combine these two in a single line to copy selected text, then immediately paste it. The custom string for that is simply:

%o%p

The mouse buttons can be programmed for a number of additional functions. For a full list, see the TinyTERM Help file.

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