Vscode: Linux/Mac: Navigate on text and files by mouse "prev/next" button

[FateNiki]

This feature already exists in the JetBrains products.

[bpasero]

@FateNiki what OS are you on? we do have some support for mouse buttons 4 and 5 to navigate back and forth. But it might not work across all OS yet.

[FateNiki]

Hi, i use Arch Linux (Linux version 4.8.2-1-ARCH) with Gnome 3.22.1

ср, 16 нояб. 2016 г. в 17:11, Benjamin Pasero [email protected]:

@FateNiki https://github.com/FateNiki what OS are you on? we do have
some support for mouse buttons 4 and 5 to navigate back and forth. But it
might not work across all OS yet.

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[bpasero]

Right, looks like we only support it on Windows via https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/api/browser-window.md#event-app-command-windows

[luckydonald]

Just checked JetBrains PyCharm 2016.3.1 on Mac OS 10.9.5, it works there.
Edit 2017-07-19: That's a Java feature :D

[Naereen]

This feature would be really useful!

[verner-lall]

Can we get this working please!

Someone made this a while ago:
https://github.com/jostrander/mouse-forward-back

[maxisacoder]

Any progress? This feature would be really useful

[sharifza]

This is a no-go for many users, I was considering switching from PyCharm but lacking this feature highly reduces the efficiency in navigating through the code if you are used to it. The issue has been open since 2016s and I haven't even found a well documented work around for it yet.

[luckydonald]

On Mac you can bind those mouse buttons to execute some prev/next keyboard commands with BetterTouchTool.

[JoseFMP]

This was already filed in few months before this issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/8641

Still few years elapsed. No work or intention to fix this apparently.

[britalmeida]

(re-posting from #8641 since there has been no reply there for a while)
The electron version of this bug has been closed as there already being a way to achieve mouse navigation functionality with electron. electron/electron#6996 (comment)
Could this be implemented in VSCode as well?

This is a severely annoying issue, given that it's a standard and habituated functionality in desktop applications. There should be no need for user configuration or shady workarounds, it should work by default.

[Yanpas]

I have a feeling that these buttons used to work before on linux https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/71318

Am I wrong?

[richardchien]

On Windows 10, it works on Visual Studio Code 1.35.1, but not on 1.36.0-insider. Did this feature have been removed or there is some bug?

[bpasero]

/duplicate https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/8641

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