Use mouse scroll wheel in Vim

Question

My .vimrc has the following lines

set mouse=a
map  
map  

But wh

Answer 1

Using vim in iTerm 2 in OS X, you can :set mouse=a to enable scrolling with the scroll wheel, as well as selecting to enter Visual mode, etc.

Answer 2

Just an option. I missed a lot of functionality in OSX, which I was totally used to from linux. The best setup that comes close to urxvt + vim is to use iTerm2 + MacVim.

Just a few things is missed and got back this way:

• Pos1+End,
• PgUp+PgDown,
• Mouse support,
• as-expected-scolling,
• cool arrangements and the intuitive keyboard movement I horribly missed from the gorgeous i3-wm,
• nerdy dimm effects and
• sloppy focus (focus follows mouse).

Unfortunately the most outstanding feature "middlemouse-clipboard" from xorg is not implemented in any term I know. Well as said its an xorg feature, and will probably never be implemented.

If your on the way to make the terminal useful in OS X don't forget the masterpiece homebrew.

Answer 3

I had the same problem using Mac's Terminal. I think it is an issue with it. Once I upgraded to Lion I don't have the problem of scrolling in vim. Please consider using iTerm2. It will solve the problem of scrolling and gives you the 256 term colors.

Answer 4

If you use iTerm, you can simply execute the following command:

defaults write com.googlecode.iterm2 AlternateMouseScroll -bool true

This will enable mouse scrolling without having to add anything in your .vimrc.

Answer 5

Mouse wheel action works when your TERM is set to xterm not to linux. So, please set "setenv TERM xterm" in the .cshrc or .bashrc, then it will work.

Answer 6

You could try using https://github.com/brodie/mouseterm, which adds mouse reporting support to Terminal.