macOS: Allow mouse buttons 4 and 5 to navigate history

[vadimcn]

• VSCode Version: 1.2.1
• OS Version: All

Some mice have "forward" and "back" buttons in addition to the standard ones. Would be nice to to be able to bind those to VSCode's navigateForward/navigateBack actions.

[rozzzly]

From my experience, this is highly dependant on one's mouse setup. Most mice I have seen have the default setup has those mouse buttons mapped to the keys: alt+left, alt+right for back, and forward respectively.

Edit: I just realized that Windows actually emits a dedicated virtual key code for those buttons, Usually named something to the effect of VK_BROSWER_BACK this is what vscode listens for, not alt+left... by default that is...

I have a Logitech G7000s which has 8 buttons addition button. Logitech ships it with software that lets you map what happens when you press a key. I would check your mouse's manufacture to see what they have available. If there's nothing of use/usable on your OS, there's a bunch of software out there to help you do it manually.

Having switched to Linux a month or so back, I had the fun experience of using xbindkeys to listen for the mouse button to be pressed, and then using xte to emit the corresponding series of virtual keystrokes.

[bpasero]

Note that currently we only support these buttons on Windows. There they are bound to navigating in the history.

[jcogilvie]

+1 for linux support. I'd love to have the default behavior match that of other applications, or at least be customizable (e.g. browsers, eclipse).

[g5codyswartz]

it's driving me crazy when I follow a definition and then want to jump back to where I was. Right now it just changes the indent on the current line. (I've been loving and abusing this in slack lately :P)

[karolmie1]

@g5codyswartz for temporary fix you can use ctrl-o ctrl-i vim bindings with vim plugin. But having this on mouse too would be pretty sweet. (gd for jumping to definition)

[Naereen]

Still not implement in Electron (see electron/electron#6996) but this node module was made especially to tackle this issue.
Could it be used for VS-Code to solve this?

[doppio]

+1 for macOS too. Is there any reason this has to be platform-specific?

[luispabon]

Be great to get this in Linux. I've managed to translate across all of my IntelliJ shortcuts except for this one (Microsoft ergonomic sculpt mouse).