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I recently switched to Z-Shell (zsh) on my Mac using the Prezto framework. I like zsh a lot and it has a lot of useful features that I am using. However, one of the capabilities I really miss is the ability to use the mouse scroll action to scroll through man pages and less output. I was able to do this by default when using bash in Terminal.app.

How do I duplicate this functionality and enable scrolling in zsh on my Mac?

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The issue was in the default options set by Prezto. See:

# Set the default Less options.
# Mouse-wheel scrolling has been disabled by -X (disable screen clearing).
# Remove -X and -F (exit if the content fits on one screen) to enable it.
#  export LESS='-F -g -i -M -R -S -w -X -z-4'  ### Initial
export LESS='-g -i -M -R -S -w -z-4'

The second export allows me to scroll through the output of man and less.

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