Fast scroll by holding down Alt while scrolling with mouse wheel #8560

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opened 2026-01-31 01:32:28 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @yellowtailfan on GitHub (May 25, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

VS Code has a great feature for scrolling using the mouse wheel. The window scrolls much faster when you hold down the Alt key. I use this all the time.

Sometimes in Windows Terminal I am scrolling through verbose CLI output, or I want to quickly look a long way back in the terminal history. It would be great if Terminal had the same Alt+scroll-wheel behaviour.

Originally created by @yellowtailfan on GitHub (May 25, 2020). # Description of the new feature/enhancement VS Code has a great feature for scrolling using the mouse wheel. The window scrolls much faster when you hold down the Alt key. I use this all the time. Sometimes in Windows Terminal I am scrolling through verbose CLI output, or I want to quickly look a long way back in the terminal history. It would be great if Terminal had the same Alt+scroll-wheel behaviour.
claunia added the Issue-TaskArea-InputProduct-TerminalArea-TerminalControl labels 2026-01-31 01:32:28 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jun 9, 2020):

I actually really like this idea. This probably would pair well with #1553, so people could customize which key is used for that, or opt-out.

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jun 9, 2020): I actually really like this idea. This probably would pair well with #1553, so people could customize which key is used for that, or opt-out.
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@JohnHallstrom commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022):

This feature would be incredibly helpful to have!

@JohnHallstrom commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022): This feature would be incredibly helpful to have!
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Reference: starred/terminal#8560