Touchpad scrolling on the mac

Question

I am using emacs from the shell (not aquamacs) on a mac laptop, however whenever I try to scroll up and down it doesn't scroll the file. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

Normally holding down the 'shift' key will let you do this on xterm and friends. See if that works. Also try M-x xterm-mouse-mode which should also yield some functionality. Note that these will prob only scroll the cursor but that should be good enough.

Answer 2

I haven't tried either of these solutions, but:

1. MouseTerm - passes mouse events to applications running in Terminal.app
2. iTerm - claims to support xterm mouse events.

(I doubt there is anything to be done within emacs to make it work.)