VIM and putty – mouse issues

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i'm not very experienced in VIM.
i'm using VIM with putty, and i often use mouse scroll and move text cursor with mouse. also sometimes i need to paste some code from windows clipboard, so i have to type ":set mouse=" to turn off mouse handling in VIM, paste the code with right mouse button and then turn mouse handling on again with ":set mouse=a". i'm looking for a better way to do it.

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Simply by <Shift> + LeftMouse to do a selection, <Shift> + RightMouse to paste your code as usual (set mouse="" state)

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