Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME selection-to-clipboard – copy the selection to the clipboard each time a selection is made SYNOPSIS urxvt -pe selection-to-clipboard DESCRIPTION This very simple extension copies the selection to the clipboard every time a selection is made. This, in effect, synchronises the clipboard with the selection for selections done by rxvt-unicode. Index
NAME selection-popup (enabled by default) DESCRIPTION Binds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button3 that lets you paste the X selections and either modify or use the internal selection text in various ways (such as uri unescaping, perl evaluation, web-browser starting etc.), depending on content. Other extensions can extend this popup menu by pushing a code reference…
NAME selection-pastebin – automatic pastebin upload EXAMPLES URxvt.keysym.C-M-e: selection-pastebin:remote-pastebin DESCRIPTION This is a little rarely useful extension that uploads the selection as textfile to a remote site (or does other things). (The implementation is not currently secure for use in a multiuser environment as it writes to /tmp directly.). It listens to the "selection-pastebin:remote-pastebin" action,…
NAME selection-autotransform – automatically transform select text DESCRIPTION This selection allows you to do automatic transforms on a selection whenever a selection is made. It works by specifying perl snippets (most useful is a single "s///" operator) that modify $_ as resources: URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: transform URxvt.selection-autotransform.1: transform … For example, the following will transform selections of…
NAME searchable-scrollback – incremental scrollback search (enabled by default) DESCRIPTION Adds regex search functionality to the scrollback buffer, triggered by the "searchable-scrollback:start" action (bound to "M-s" by default). While in search mode, normal terminal input/output is suspended and a regex is displayed at the bottom of the screen. Inputting characters appends them to the regex…
NAME remote-clipboard – manage a shared and possibly remote clipboard DESCRIPTION Somewhat of a misnomer, this extension adds two menu entries to the selection popup that allows one to run external commands to store the selection somewhere and fetch it again. We use it to implement a “distributed selection mechanism”, which just means that one…
NAME readline – improve readline editing (enabled by default) DESCRIPTION A support package that tries to make editing with readline easier. At the moment, it reacts to clicking shift-left mouse button by trying to move the text cursor to this position. It does so by generating as many cursor-left or cursor-right keypresses as required (this…
NAME overlay-osc – implement OSC to manage overlays DESCRIPTION This extension implements some OSC commands to display timed popups on the screen – useful for status displays from within scripts. You have to read the sources for more info. Index
NAME option-popup – option menu (enabled by default) DESCRIPTION Binds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button2 that lets you toggle (some) options at runtime. Other extensions can extend this popup menu by pushing a code reference onto "@{ $term->{option_popup_hook} }", which gets called whenever the popup is being displayed. Its sole argument is the popup menu,…
NAME matcher – match strings in terminal output and change their rendition DESCRIPTION Uses per-line display filtering ("on_line_update") to underline text matching a certain pattern and make it clickable. When clicked with the mouse button specified in the "matcher.button" resource (default 2, or middle), the program specified in the "matcher.launcher" resource (default, the "url-launcher" resource,…
NAME kuake – kuake-like hotkey terminal EXAMPLES @@RXVT_NAME@@ -kuake-hotkey F10 URxvt.kuake.hotkey: F10 DESCRIPTION A very primitive quake-console-like extension. It was inspired by a description of how the programs "kuake" and "yakuake" work: Whenever the user presses a global accelerator key (by default "F10"), the terminal will show or hide itself. Another press of the accelerator…
NAME keysym-list – implement the "list" keysym expansion. SYNOPSIS urxvt -pe keysym-list DESCRIPTION The “list” keysym expansion was formerly part of the rxvt-unicode core, and has been moved into this extension for backwards compatibility. You shouldn’t use this extension except for compatibility with old configurations. Index
NAME urxvt-extensions – briefly list urxvt perl extensions SYNOPSIS urxvt -pe extension-name DESCRIPTION This manpage briefly lists the rxvt-unicode extensions available in this version of rxvt-unicode. For information on how to write urxvt extensions, see the urxvt-extensions manpage. Extensions that use resources for configuration are loaded automatically when their resources are specified as command-line switches….
NAME example-refresh-hooks – example of how to use refresh hooks DESCRIPTION Displays a very simple digital clock in the upper right corner of the window. Illustrates overwriting the refresh callbacks to create your own overlays or changes. Index
NAME eval – evaluate arbitrary perl code using actions EXAMPLES URxvt.keysym.M-c: eval:selection_to_clipboard URxvt.keysym.M-v: eval:paste_clipboard URxvt.keysym.M-V: eval:paste_primary URxvt.keysym.M-Up: eval:scroll_up 1 URxvt.keysym.M-Down: eval:scroll_down 1 URxvt.keysym.M-Home: eval:scroll_to_top URxvt.keysym.M-End: eval:scroll_to_bottom DESCRIPTION Add support for evaluating arbitrary perl code using actions in keysym resources. If a keysym action takes the form "eval:STRING", the specified STRING is evaluated as a Perl…
NAME digital-clock – display a digital clock overlay DESCRIPTION Displays a digital clock using the built-in overlay. Index
NAME confirm-paste – ask for confirmation before pasting multiline text DESCRIPTION Displays a confirmation dialog when a paste containing at least a full line is detected. Index
NAME clipboard-osc – implement the clipboard operating system command sequence SYNOPSIS urxvt -pe clipboard-osc DESCRIPTION This extension implements the clipboard;copy Perl OSC. Index
NAME block-graphics-to-ascii – map block graphics to ascii characters DESCRIPTION A not very useful example of filtering all text output to the terminal by replacing all line-drawing characters (U+2500 .. U+259F) by a similar-looking ascii character. Index
NAME bell-command – execute a command when the bell rings DESCRIPTION Runs the command specified by the "URxvt.bell-command" resource when a bell event occurs. For example, the following pops up a notification bubble with the text “Beep, Beep” using notify-send: URxvt.bell-command: notify-send "Beep, Beep" Index