scrolling with a wheel mouse in vim

[curmudgeon]

When in vim, the wheel on the whieel mouse moves three lines at a time. Is there any way to change that to one line. Yes, I read this (and tried the suggestions), but nothing changed: http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/scroll.html

This machine has kde, and I have have used system settings to change it so that konsole only scrolls one line at a time. Although when there is no scroll bar, the wheel mouse acts as up and down arrows displaying the command history - is there some way to get that even when there is a scroll bar? I have tried shift, ctrl, and alt, but none of those work.

[katfish]

This machine has kde, and I have have used system settings to change it so that konsole only scrolls one line at a time. Although when there is no scroll bar, the wheel mouse acts as up and down arrows displaying the command history - is there some way to get that even when there is a scroll bar? I have tried shift, ctrl, and alt, but none of those work.

Have a look at /etc/inputrc - I guess that's a good point to start dealing with your issue.

[curmudgeon]

Have a look at /etc/inputrc - I guess that's a good point to start dealing with your issue.

That is an initialization file for readline (not saying that it can't handle a wheel mouse, but I don't see any indication or documentation that it does).

[katfish]

yep, but is wheeling the mouse not almost same as typing pg up/dn on the CLI?

[wired_]

Your console probably sends three up/down keystrokes to vim when you use the scroll wheel.

What you really want is to enable mouse support in vim, then you'll be able to set the wheel scroll amount to one line.

Put the following in your ~/.vimrc:

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set mouse=a
map <ScrollWheelUp> <C-Y>
map <ScrollWheelDown> <C-E>

This will change other things as well. For example, selecting text will activate and use vim's visual mode (thus ignoring line numbers). Use shift to select text the old way.

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/t ... ouse-using

[curmudgeon]

Your console probably sends three up/down keystrokes to vim when you use the scroll wheel.

It shouldn't. I have "System Settings / Input Devices / Mouse / Advanced / Mouse wheel scrolls by" set to "1 line."

And the vim documentation says that the default for vim is three lines.

What you really want is to enable mouse support in vim, then you'll be able to set the wheel scroll amount to one line.

Put the following in your ~/.vimrc:

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set mouse=a
map <ScrollWheelUp> <C-Y>
map <ScrollWheelDown> <C-E>

Didn't work. It still scrolls by three lines.

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/t ... ouse-using

Didn't see that before. Seems that there is a lot of documentation (but none of it is working for me).

[ppurka]

What you really want is to enable mouse support in vim, then you'll be able to set the wheel scroll amount to one line.

Put the following in your ~/.vimrc:

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set mouse=a
map <ScrollWheelUp> <C-Y>
map <ScrollWheelDown> <C-E>

Didn't work. It still scrolls by three lines.

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/t ... ouse-using

Didn't see that before. Seems that there is a lot of documentation (but none of it is working for me).

These map commands work for me. I am using urxvt. So, maybe it is a combination of konsole+vim which is messing things up for you?