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

I've gotten trackpad scrolling to work for emacs + iTerm2 following this SO solution. For brevity, added the following configs to my ~/.emacs:

;; mouse integration
(require 'mouse) ;; needed for iterm2 compatibility
(xterm-mouse-mode t)
(global-set-key [mouse-4] '(lambda ()
                           (interactive)
                           (scroll-down 1)))
(global-set-key [mouse-5] '(lambda ()
                           (interactive)
                           (scroll-up 1)))
(setq mouse-sel-mode t)
(defun track-mouse (e))

Answer 2

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.