Scroll “less” output using scroll wheel on Mac OS X

Question

How can I enable the scrolling of "less" output (rather than the terminal window itself) using the scroll wheel on OSX?

Answer 1

You can't scroll using the mouse wheel without any hacks. One of these makes use of a SIMBL plugin called MouseTerm, which reports the mouse events to your Terminal:

MouseTerm is a SIMBL plugin for Mac OS X's Terminal.app that passes mouse events to the terminal, allowing you to use mouse shortcuts within applications that support them.

To get started, first install SIMBL (MouseTerm won't work without it!). Once you've done that, open the .dmg file, run Install, and restart Terminal.app. To uninstall, run Uninstall from the .dmg.

The FAQ mentions less as a good place to try mouse reporting.