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How can I change the scroll wheel behavior in vim, so that it scrolls instead of moving the cursor?

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Mar 15, 20268088 views
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I would like scrolling up to be equivalent to , and scrolling down to be equivalent to . The documentation here seems to suggest that this should already be the case, or I can work around it by putting this in my : Neither of these solutions seem to work. I am using from the terminal in Ubuntu 11.1…

Error Output

map <ScrollWheelUp> <C-Y>
map <S-ScrollWheelUp> <C-U>
map <ScrollWheelDown> <C-E>
map <S-ScrollWheelDown> <C-D>

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Fix for: How can I change the scroll wheel behavior in vim, so that it scrolls instead of moving the cursor?

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Sorry you had to struggle with this one. It's actually very simple. Just add the following line to your ~/.vimrc: With this turned on, you won't be able (in *nix) to copy stuff out of vim by simply selecting it with the mouse; but if you hold down S…

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