A small collection of perl extensions for the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator.
Simply place the scripts you want to install in /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/ for system-wide availability or in ~/.urxvt/ext/ for user-only availability. You can also put them in a folder of your choice, but then you have to add this line to your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
URxvt.perl-lib: /your/folder/
See the following sections for information on how to enable the scripts or set script-specific options and keyboard mappings in your .Xdefaults/.Xresources.
Use keyboard shortcuts to select and copy text.
After installing, put the following lines in your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
URxvt.perl-ext-common: ...,keyboard-select
URxvt.keysym.M-Escape: perl:keyboard-select:activate
The following line overwrites the default Meta-s binding and allows to activate keyboard-select directly in backward search mode:
URxvt.keysym.M-s: perl:keyboard-select:search
Use Meta-Escape to activate selection mode, then use the following keys:
h/j/k/l: Move cursor left/down/up/right (also with arrow keys)
g/G/0/^/Home/$/End/H/M/L/f/F/;/,/w/W/b/B/e/E: More vi-like cursor movement keys
'/'/?: Start forward/backward search
n/N: Repeat last search, N: in reverse direction
Ctrl-f/b: Scroll down/up one screen
Ctrl-d/u: Scroll down/up half a screen
v/V/Ctrl-v: Toggle normal/linewise/blockwise selection
y/Return: Copy selection to primary buffer, Return: quit afterwards
Y: Copy selected lines to primary buffer or cursor line and quit
q/Escape: Quit keyboard selection mode
Use keyboard shortcuts to select URLs.
DEPRECATED
Since version 9.21 the matcher extension shipped with rxvt-unicode fully
replaces this extension. The url-select:select_next action is provided by the
matcher:select action. However, the matcher extension does not provide
vi-like key bindings; it only uses the arrow and home/end keys.
This should be used as a replacement for the default matcher extension, it also makes URLs clickable with the middle mouse button.
After installing, put the following lines in your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
URxvt.perl-ext-common: ...,url-select
URxvt.keysym.M-u: perl:url-select:select_next
Use Meta-u to activate URL selection mode, then use the following keys:
j/k: Select next downward/upward URL (also with arrow keys)
g/G: Select first/last URL (also with home/end key)
o/Return: Open selected URL in browser, Return: deactivate afterwards
y: Copy (yank) selected URL and deactivate selection mode
q/Escape: Deactivate URL selection mode
Options:
URxvt.url-select.autocopy: if set to true, selected URLs are automatically
copied to the PRIMARY buffer
URxvt.url-select.button: mouse button to click-open URLs (default: 2)
URxvt.url-select.launcher: browser/command to open selected URL with
URxvt.url-select.underline: if set to true, all URLs get underlined
For compatibility reasons, url-select will also use any patterns defined for
the matcher extension by reading all URxvt.matcher.pattern.[0-9] resources.
DEPRECATED
Since version 9.20 rxvt-unicode natively supports copying to and pasting from
the CLIPBOARD buffer with the Ctrl-Meta-c and Ctrl-Meta-v key bindings. The
clipboard.autocopy setting is provided by the selection_to_clipboard
extension shipped with rxvt-unicode.
Use keyboard shortcuts to copy the selection to the clipboard and to paste the clipboard contents (optionally escaping all special characters).
After installing, put the following lines in your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
URxvt.perl-ext-common: ...,clipboard
URxvt.keysym.M-c: perl:clipboard:copy
URxvt.keysym.M-v: perl:clipboard:paste
URxvt.keysym.M-C-v: perl:clipboard:paste_escaped
Options:
URxvt.clipboard.autocopy: if set to true, the clipboard is automatically
updated whenever the PRIMARY selection changes
You can also overwrite the system commands to use for copying/pasting. The default ones are:
URxvt.clipboard.copycmd: xsel -ib
URxvt.clipboard.pastecmd: xsel -ob
If you prefer xclip, then put these lines in your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
URxvt.clipboard.copycmd: xclip -i -selection clipboard
URxvt.clipboard.pastecmd: xclip -o -selection clipboard
On Mac OS X, put these lines in your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
URxvt.clipboard.copycmd: pbcopy
URxvt.clipboard.pastecmd: pbpaste
The use of the functions should be self-explanatory!