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:wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS
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Downward scrolling with trackpad in man pages not working #696

Open asafch opened 8 years ago

asafch commented 8 years ago

When I open a man page in the terminal, I can't scroll down with the trackpad, but only with the up\down keys. If I scroll down with the down key, only then I'm able to use the trackpad to scroll up, and also to scroll down as much as has been scrolled down with the down key.

Any ideas why this happens?

davehouse commented 7 years ago

This is caused by the "-X" added to less when run from man here: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.exports#L30

Remove the " -X" and less will handle mouse scrolling! (like this change, https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/pull/721)

This disables the feature the author was adding however: to keep the text output of man within the terminal scrollback.

To capture the man text and keep the scrolling, you can wrap it in a script like here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107315/less-quit-if-one-screen-without-no-init/107355#107355

See here for more details: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/167735/can-less-f-be-usefully-combined-with-termcap-initialization