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Mouse scroll doesn't work in "encoding" and "open file" menus when file is open

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli

Research direction

Review PR #603 and the attached scroll.patch first, then reproduce the issue in the Encoding and Open file menus while a file is open. Compare the patch's behavior with the current main branch; done means mouse scrolling works in both menus.

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Description

Mouse scolling doesn't work in "Encoding" and "Open file" menus when file is open.
It looks like bug was introduced with commit https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/603

I fix latest main code with bellow patch and it started to work.

scroll.patch

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