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I was wondering why my less sometimes does not recognize the mouse wheel (my terminal is Konsole). Now I've found a pattern: It seems to work whenever less's STDIN comes directly from the shell (zsh here), e.g.
$ less somefile.txt
But it does not work when STDIN is a pipe from another program, e.g.
$ perl report.pl | less
$ git diff # which implicitly invokes `less`
Any idea what I can do about that?
P.S. Whenever anyone of you writes a program, please make sure to give it a Google-able name. Search results for less mouse wheel or similar are not helpful.
Stefan Majewsky
Posted 2013-04-22T11:30:09.807
Reputation: 61
googling "less mouse-wheel" on the other hand, does produce some apparently useful (or, at least, on-topic) results. – SuperMagic – 2013-04-22T12:17:51.733
more/less predates google by about 20 years. It predates the Internet. People solved problems before Google. – SpliFF – 2013-04-22T12:19:29.303
SuperMagic: Not quite. There are numerous users reporting "mouse wheel does not work at all", but no one with this particular pattern. – Stefan Majewsky – 2013-04-22T13:14:30.253