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I'm on windows 10, I have dual screens. In a window I read the docs, in the other I write code. Is it possible to scoll the docs while still being in the editor monitor?

I don't want to keep switching everytime I need to scroll

Lynob
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Scroll another window without losing focus

You have at least two options:

1) Focus-follows-mouse

(aka focus-follows-pointer)

This lets you scroll a window without having it in focus. There are a number of options for this in Windows 10 as laid out in this QA:

  • x-Mouse Controls, an open source utility (credit to ArthurChanez)

  • there is also a PowerShell option, as per golvok:

    $signature = @"
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern bool SystemParametersInfo(int uAction, int uParam, ref 
int lpvParam, int flags );
"@

$systemParamInfo = Add-Type -memberDefinition  $signature -Name SloppyFocusMouse -passThru

[Int32]$newVal = 1
$systemParamInfo::SystemParametersInfo(0x1001, 0, [REF]$newVal, 2)

2) A custom hotkey to scroll another window

This is doable with a hotkey-automation-type software like autohotkey

AutoHotkey is a free, open-source scripting language for Windows that allows users to easily create small to complex scripts for all kinds of tasks such as: form fillers, auto-clicking, macros, etc.

With autohotkey you can capture (global/window-specific) hotkeys and send them to a specific / another window.

The benefits of this approach are:

  • keep your hands on the keyboard!
  • you could have a number of different hotkeys to scroll by different amounts (5 lines, half page, page, etc)
  • hotkeys to quickly jump to other documentation sections, or other tasks that might steal focus with the mouse
  • you could make the hotkeys specific to your code IDE (rather than global), so that they only scroll the documentation window in that context you don't have to learn a new mouse behaviour
  • learning autohotkey automation may be beneficial in other areas
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