alternate_buffer_wheel_scroll_speed = 3

Since: Version 20210203-095643-70a364eb

The functionality described in this section requires version 20210203-095643-70a364eb of wezterm, or a more recent version.

Normally the vertical mouse wheel will scroll the terminal viewport so that different sections of the scrollback are visible.

When an application activates the Alternate Screen Buffer (this is common for "full screen" terminal programs such as pagers and editors), the alternate screen doesn't have a scrollback.

In this mode, if the application hasn't enabled mouse reporting, wezterm will generate Arrow Up/Down key events when the vertical mouse wheel is scrolled.

The alternate_buffer_wheel_scroll_speed specifies how many arrow key presses are generated by a single scroll wheel "tick".

The default for this value is 3, which means that a single wheel up tick will appear to the application as though the user pressed arrow up three times in quick succession.

In versions of wezterm prior to this configuration option being available, the behavior was the same except that the effective value of this option was always 1.