@harold-b This is an OS-level Windows feature, it should work on Windows now. Also middle click has special behavior on Linux by acting as a secondary clipboard so it definitely wouldn't work there.

it should work on Windows now

Which version is it available on? I can't seem to trigger it on 1.10 public or insiders.

@harold-b do you have the same issues in Chrome and/or Atom? I wouldn't expect us to need to do anything on our side for it to work.

I'm on Chrome right now and it's always worked. I've never used atom (other than electron via VSCode), but I'll grab it and verify.

I tried Atom, it didn't work either. I checked the settings page to see if there was an option I needed to enable, I didn't find anything, but scrolling worked on the settings page. So I decided to check a markdown file in preview mode on VS Code, and it worked there too. However, not in text documents on either app.

@harold-b k, I'll relabel and assign, thanks for bearing with me 😃

Not at all, my pleasure to help. Thanks for your attention 👍

Hi, any news on this?

THX

Bump!

I use this feature constantly within Visual Studio, and it is greatly missed.

I keep seeing that you guys are working on something each month when there is a new version. How come you keep forgetting about this one? There has been a year already. If you say it is something OS level it means it's a bug. It doesn't matter, bug, feature, just please make it work.

@csicky there are 4000 open issues currently and there are ~2000 new ones created every month. Everything needs to be prioritized.

I understand that, but if there are 2000 new ones every month it means that in a year there were many issues prioritized before this one.

@csicky The advantage of us being Open Source is that if you'd like to have something implemented, you can do it and submit a PR. Issues and discussions are very valuable, but IMHO a PR will have a far greater impact! ❤️

@alexandrudima OK then, until I will find time to make it myself I will have to live with it every day. OS is not always an advantage. But if you say it's an advantage, why are you doing it actually? Not to share it with the users? Here is a request from some users.

@csicky I don't understand the point you're trying to make here? There are many good and bad things with OSS, but from this conversation I've gathered:

Advantages:

• Ability to talk directly with developers
• Access to source code
• Ability to contribute
• More unfiltered feedback from users

Disadvantages:

• ?

The fact that VS Code is OSS doesn't change the fact that we're busy and need to manage and prioritize the vast amount of incoming issues. You would probably be worse off if VS Code was closed as you wouldn't have the ability to contribute is what @alexandrudima was trying to say.

Middle click scroll when? 7 years guys..

Middle click scroll when? 7 years guys..

Waiting for the 10 years anniversary or even better, never

2024, still waiting...

Ah, shame. My mousewheel got dirty and I can't fix it, so it counter-scrolls half the time. I would really, really, really need autoscrolling to be able to navigate my code while the next mouse is shipping.

Can we tag this as accessibility Keyboard, mouse, ARIA, vision, screen readers (non-specific) issues ?

I need this...

From time to time, I press the middle button to scroll, like I haven't tried it already a thousand times. That's how I miss this feature.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc

this is at number 50 of never to be completed issues

+1
i use it in browsers all the time so to not have it is incredibly weird

Can we tag this as accessibility Keyboard, mouse, ARIA, vision, screen readers (non-specific) issues ?

+1

+1

Ah, shame. My mousewheel got dirty and I can't fix it, so it counter-scrolls half the time. I would really, really, really need autoscrolling to be able to navigate my code while the next mouse is shipping.

Can we tag this as accessibility Keyboard, mouse, ARIA, vision, screen readers (non-specific) issues ?

I woudl like to boost this.

How tf are people horizontal scrolling? Is everyone actually moving their mouse all the way to the tiny scrollbar at the bottom of the screen and dragging it left to right like it's 1990?

• Mainly Shift + Scroll ?
• Also but depending on the mouse model:
  • Mouse wheel side clicks
  • Extra horizontal mouse wheel

How tf are people horizontal scrolling? Is everyone actually moving their mouse all the way to the tiny scrollbar at the bottom of the screen and dragging it left to right like it's 1990?

Another workaround: use ALT-z to temporarily enable word wrapping.

I see label "feature-request" to this issue but it is actually a bug, not a feature request. I just scrolled up using middle click to read the label correctly.

Anyway, I found a solution because it was very frustrating. Using X-Mouse driver I could intercept middle-click and this program has its own middle click scroll which we can use.

https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm

No point in waiting another 2(two) years for this to be fixed.

Oh I said another two years... in 2018 :D
This is the best GitHub issue ever, would be a shame to close it now, let's wait for 2026!!!
In 2026 if all goes well we can submit this here

As for the workaround, it does work, the scroll cursor is not the prettiest, but it's ok

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc

this is at number 50 of never to be completed issues

Now at number 24! We can win this!

I use it in browsers all the time so to not have it is incredibly weird

Particularly since Firefox supports it on Linux. So much for "This is an OS-level Windows feature" and "middle click has special behaviour on Linux so it definitely wouldn't work there".

:/

I'm not sure if this is the right direction but I have got a working prototype at https://github.com/UziTech/vscode/tree/middle-scroll/src/vs/editor/contrib/middleScroll/browser

The logic is pulled from https://github.com/UziTech/atom-scroll-editor-on-middle-click updated with vscode APIs

As a Linux user, I very much want this feature. I use it literally every day in Firefox for web browsing. Feels horrible to navigate through long code files in VS Code without it.

I'm not sure if this is the right direction but I have got a working prototype at https://github.com/UziTech/vscode/tree/middle-scroll/src/vs/editor/contrib/middleScroll/browser

The logic is pulled from https://github.com/UziTech/atom-scroll-editor-on-middle-click updated with vscode APIs

Man, can you make it as extension, please?

Man, can you make it as extension, please?

I don't believe this can be an extension since the extension APIs are so limited.

That was one thing that was so nice about Atom. An extension could do anything so it was much easier for the community to fix things like this. We didn't have to wait 10 years for the devs to prioritize it.

This is the kind of thing you interview for working at microsoft, then join the VS team, fix, ensure your PR gets merged and then quit.

I see label "feature-request" to this issue but it is actually a bug, not a feature request. I just scrolled up using middle click to read the label correctly.
Anyway, I found a solution because it was very frustrating. Using X-Mouse driver I could intercept middle-click and this program has its own middle click scroll which we can use.
https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm

No point in waiting another 2(two) years for this to be fixed.

Oh I said another two years... in 2018 :D This is the best GitHub issue ever, would be a shame to close it now, let's wait for 2026!!! In 2026 if all goes well we can submit this here

As for the workaround, it does work, the scroll cursor is not the prettiest, but it's ok

Omg thank you so much! I had no idea X-Mouse had that feature. Works perfectly.

I'm not sure if this is the right direction but I have got a working prototype at https://github.com/UziTech/vscode/tree/middle-scroll/src/vs/editor/contrib/middleScroll/browser

The logic is pulled from https://github.com/UziTech/atom-scroll-editor-on-middle-click updated with vscode APIs

They can just merge this but noooo we shoulkd wait for another 8 years

I created a PR for this #245882 🤞