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After I upgraded to Sierra from Mavericks I noticed that when I open something in Terminal with for example less or vi and I want to scroll back to see previous lines the scrolling happens inside the programs. How can I change it back to 'just scroll'?
Thanks!
To use a mouse wheel or trackpad to scroll in Terminal.app you'll need to install MouseTerm. After installing MouseTerm you'll need to add set mouse=nicr to your .vimrc file:
echo "set mouse=nicr" >> ~/.vimrc
If you're still not able to scroll in elinks it's possible that it wasn't compiled with GPM (General Purpose Mouse) support. Since elinks isn't a native application to OS X you probably installed through MacPorts or Homebrew. I'd open the "formula" file for elinks /usr/local/Library/Formula/elinks.rb (by default for Homebrew) and verify that --without-gpm isn't anywhere to be found.
Though your question states you want to do this in Terminal.app I'd recommend taking a look at iTerm2 which supports this natively, and has quite a bit more to offer then the stock Terminal app.
You can change this in Terminal's Preferences:
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You can scroll the screen while holding fn or Shift ⇧ key.
You can disable this completly by unthicking:
Terminal Preferences → Profiles → Keyboard → Scroll Alternate Screen.