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Disable right-click + mousewheel scrolls tabs

#1

If I right-click and scroll my mousewheel, it scrolls through the tabs. How can I disable this?
I’ve tried
“mouse_wheel_switches_tabs”: false
and
“enable_tab_scrolling”: false
to no effect.

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#2

enable_tab_scrolling setting to false actually hides the scroll tabs button (The <| |> button pair you find to the immediate left of the first tab)

I have no idea what mouse_wheel_switches_tabs does. It’s not defined in default Preferences, but there is a single mention of it in the theme documentation https://www.sublimetext.com/docs/themes.html#mouse_wheel_switches_tabs but I don’t know if this is the same as right click & scroll, since I use only Windows exclusively. Maybe someone who uses some Linux distro can confirm.

To cycle back to your question, you can create a Default (Windows).sublime-mousemap file in the User directory (Preferences -> Browse Packages ... from the main menu) and then paste the following

[
    // Switch files by holding down button 2, and using the scroll wheel - Default behavior.
    // We now simply copy the bindings and assign the command to "noop" to disable this.
    { "button": "scroll_down", "modifiers": ["button2"], "command": "noop" },
    { "button": "scroll_up", "modifiers": ["button2"], "command": "noop" },
]

The behavior should now be disabled.

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#3

That works great, thanks very much!

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