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Mouse wheel scrolling in less and vim using urxvt

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Mar 15, 20269906 views
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I have started working with rxvt-unicode (aka ) but found an issue with mouse-wheel scrolling, as compared to and . The mouse wheel works fine for going through the scrollback buffer, but it doesn't work for automatic scrolling in / or (though in vim, setting makes it work, but in a very different …

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Fix for: Mouse wheel scrolling in less and vim using urxvt

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Old question, but: while this is not possible in urxvt, I made some changes that will add an option (secondaryWheel) to do exactly that, and make it behave like VTE-based terminals. What this new option does, is pretty simple: when using the mouse w…

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