How to use the touch screen to scroll in vim/less/etc?

[UrsaDK]

Whenever I try to scroll using the screen in Vim or less, I often end up scrolling through the terminal's scrollback buffer instead. Most of the time, that's not what I want, as I'm just trying to scroll through the file I'm viewing.

Obviously, there are other ways to scroll through that file (Ctrl-U, Ctrl-E, zb, etc) but sometimes, especially when I'm reading, I just want to scroll down without bothering with the keyboard. 🙂

So my question is, has anyone figured out how to scroll in vim or less using the screen?

[elgithubo]

Sorry for squading this, but how do you send ctrl?

[saagarjha]

Hit the key that looks like this: ⌃

[elgithubo]

says "command not understood" in "top".

[Yousousen]

I'm looking for a way to do this as well. As an alternative, one can map <up> and <down> to <c-u> and <c-d> respectively. What is great about these mappings is that <up> and <down> can be held down with the button on the extra keys bar.