Why does mouse wheel not work for scrolling in Vim?

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Last updated: Jan 10, 2023 by Netsarang Support
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PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

When using Vim on a server, the mouse wheel does not scroll through the scroll buffer. Instead, the input seems to be converted to the arrow keys.

The same issue occurs even if use of the mouse wheel is blocked in visual mode in the vimrc settings. Is there a way to use the mouse wheel for scrolling in Vim?



RESOLUTION

Xshell 7 added a mouse wheel related action option in Build 0109.

Try again after using the following command:

set ForceWheelEvents = 0

Xshell 7 (Build 0111)
 
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[C:\~]$ set ForceWheelEvents = 0