--- rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2006/01/09 01:54:43 1.22 +++ rxvt-unicode/README.FAQ 2006/01/13 12:40:46 1.28 @@ -1,4 +1,44 @@ FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS + The new selection selects pieces that are too big, how can I select + single words? + Yes. For example, if you want to select alphanumeric words, you can + use the following resource: + + URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([[:word:]]+) + + If you click more than twice, the selection will be extended more + and more. + + To get a selection that is very similar to the old code, try this + pattern: + + URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ([^"&'()*,;<=>?@[\\\\]^`{|})]+) + + Please also note that the *LeftClick Shift-LeftClik* combination + also selects words like the old code. + + I don't like the new selection/popups/hotkeys/perl, how do I + change/disable it? + You can disable the perl extension completely by setting the + perl-ext-common resource to the empty string, which also keeps + rxvt-unicode from initialising perl, saving memory. + + If you only want to disable specific features, you first have to + identify which perl extension is responsible. For this, read the + section PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS in the urxvtperl(3) manpage. For + example, to disable the selection-popup and option-popup, specify + this perl-ext-common resource: + + URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,-selection-popup,-option-popup + + This will keep the default extensions, but disable the two popup + extensions. Some extensions can also be configured, for example, + scrollback search mode is triggered by M-s. You can move it to any + other combination either by setting the searchable-scrollback + resource: + + URxvt.searchable-scrollback: CM-s + Isn't rxvt supposed to be small? Don't all those features bloat? I often get asked about this, and I think, no, they didn't cause extra bloat. If you compare a minimal rxvt and a minimal urxvt, you @@ -37,7 +77,7 @@ this still fares rather well. And compared to some monsters like gnome-terminal (21152k + extra 4204k in separate processes) or konsole (22200k + extra 43180k in daemons that stay around after - exit, plus half aminute of startup time, including the hundreds of + exit, plus half a minute of startup time, including the hundreds of warnings it spits out), it fares extremely well *g*. Why C++, isn't that unportable/bloated/uncool? @@ -85,7 +125,7 @@ How do I know which rxvt-unicode version I'm using? The version number is displayed with the usage (-h). Also the escape sequence "ESC [ 8 n" sets the window title to the version number. - When using the rxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the + When using the urxvtc client, the version displayed is that of the daemon. I am using Debian GNU/Linux and have a problem... @@ -129,15 +169,17 @@ safe? Likely not. While I honestly try to make it secure, and am probably not bad at it, I think it is simply unreasonable to expect all of - freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + ... + rxvt-unicode itself to - all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options when it - detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. + freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + perl + ... + rxvt-unicode + itself to all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options + when it detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice. + Besides, with the embedded perl interpreter the possibility for + security problems easily multiplies. Elevated privileges are only required for utmp and pty operations on some systems (for example, GNU/Linux doesn't need any extra - privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). If - rxvt-unicode doesn't support the library/setuid helper that your OS - needs I'll be happy to assist you in implementing support for it. + privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). It is + planned to mvoe this into a forked handler process, but this is not + yet done. So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on your typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always @@ -177,7 +219,7 @@ Most likely it's the empty definition for "enacs=". Just replace it by "enacs=\E[0@" and try again. - "bash"'s readline does not work correctly under rxvt. + "bash"'s readline does not work correctly under urxvt. I need a termcap file entry. One reason you might want this is that some distributions or operating systems still compile some programs using the @@ -298,7 +340,7 @@ In that case, select a font of your taste and add it to the font list, e.g.: - rxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3... + urxvt -fn basefont,font2,font3... When rxvt-unicode sees a character, it will first look at the base font. If the base font does not contain the character, it will go to @@ -593,7 +635,7 @@ some editors prematurely may leave the mouse in mouse report mode. I've heard that tcsh may use mouse reporting unless it otherwise specified. A quick check is to see if cut/paste works when the Alt - or Shift keys are depressed. See rxvt(7) + or Shift keys are depressed. What's with this bold/blink stuff? If no bold colour is set via "colorBD:", bold will invert text using @@ -658,9 +700,9 @@ URxvt.color7: #e1dddd URxvt.color15: #e1dddd - How can I start rxvtd in a race-free way? - Try "rxvtd -f -o", which tells rxvtd to open the display, create the - listening socket and then fork. + How can I start urxvtd in a race-free way? + Try "urxvtd -f -o", which tells urxvtd to open the display, create + the listening socket and then fork. What's with the strange Backspace/Delete key behaviour? Assuming that the physical Backspace key corresponds to the @@ -683,13 +725,13 @@ # use Backspace = ^H $ stty erase ^H - $ rxvt + $ urxvt # use Backspace = ^? $ stty erase ^? - $ rxvt + $ urxvt - Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l" as documented in rxvt(7). + Toggle with "ESC [ 36 h" / "ESC [ 36 l". For an existing rxvt-unicode: @@ -725,7 +767,7 @@ option you can use the `keysym' resource to alter the keystrings associated with keysyms. - Here's an example for a URxvt session started using "rxvt -name + Here's an example for a URxvt session started using "urxvt -name URxvt" URxvt.keysym.Home: \033[1~