rxvt-unicode, version 7.7, is a colour vt102 terminal +
rxvt-unicode, version 8.0, is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt-unicode uses much less swap space -- @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
See rxvt(7) (try man 7 rxvt) for a list of
frequently asked questions and answer to them and some common
problems. That document is also accessible on the World-Wide-Web at
-http://cvs.schmorp.de/browse/*checkout*/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html.
If you are looking for a terminal that supports more exotic scripts, let
-me recommend mlterm, which is a very userfriendly, lean and clean
+me recommend mlterm, which is a very user friendly, lean and clean
terminal emulator. In fact, the reason rxvt-unicode was born was solely
because the author couldn't get mlterm to use one font for latin1 and
another for japanese.
Apart from that, rxvt-unicode is also much better internationalised than its predecessor, supports things such as XFT and ISO 14755 that are handy -in i18n-environments, is faster, and has a lot less bugs than the original +in i18n-environments, is faster, and has a lot bugs less than the original rxvt. This all in addition to dozens of other small improvements.
It is still faithfully following the original rxvt idea of being lean
and nice on resources: for example, you can still configure rxvt-unicode
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
drastically reduces memory usage. See rxvtd(1) (daemon) and
rxvtc(1) (client).
It also makes technical information about escape sequences (which have
-been extended) easier accessible: see rxvt(7) for technical
+been extended) more accessible: see rxvt(7) for technical
reference documentation (escape sequences etc.).
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@
Please note that transparency of any kind if completely unsupported by -the author. Don't bug him with installation questions!
+the author. Don't bug him with installation questions! Read the FAQ (man 7 +rxvt)!It might be useful to know that rxvt will not close file
descriptors passed to it (except for stdin/out/err, of course), so you
can use file descriptors to communicate with the programs within the
-terminal. This works regardless of wether the -embed option was used or
+terminal. This works regardless of whether the -embed option was used or
not.
Tells rxvt NOT to execute any commands or create a new pty/tty -pair but instead use the given filehandle as the tty master. This is +pair but instead use the given file descriptor as the tty master. This is useful if you want to drive rxvt as a generic terminal emulator without having to run a program within it.
When font styles are not enabled, or this option is enabled (True, option -is, the default), bold and italic font styles imply high -intensity foreground/backround colours. Disabling this option (False, +intensity foreground/background colours. Disabling this option (False, option +is) disables this behaviour, the high intensity colours are not reachable.
This creates a new file in your home directory with the screen contents
-everytime you hit Print.
Print.
True: scroll with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines (and scrollTtyOutput is False); option -sw. False: do not scroll -with scrollback buffer when tty recieves new lines; option +sw.
+with scrollback buffer when tty receives new lines; option +sw.\e, \E: escape, \n: newline, \r: carriage return, \t: tab,
\000: octal number) or verbatim control characters (^?: delete,
^@: null, ^A ...) and may be enclosed with double quotes so that it
-can start or end with whitespace.
+can start or end with whitespace. This feature is deprecated and will
+be removed.
Please note that you need to double the \ in resource files, as
@@ -1395,7 +1397,7 @@
You can define a range of keysyms in one shot by providing a string -with pattern list/PREFIX/MIDDLE/SUFFIX, where the delimeter `/' +with pattern list/PREFIX/MIDDLE/SUFFIX, where the delimiter `/' should be a character not used by the strings.
Extension names can also be followed by an argument in angle brackets
(e.g. searchable-scrollback<M-s>, which binds the hotkey for
-searchable scorllback to Alt/Meta-s). Mentioning the same extension
+searchable scrollback to Alt/Meta-s). Mentioning the same extension
multiple times with different arguments will pass multiple arguments to
the extension.
Normally set to rxvt-unicode, unless overwritten at configure time, via
-resources or on the commandline.
Either rxvt, rxvt-xpm, depending on wether rxvt was
+
Either rxvt, rxvt-xpm, depending on whether rxvt was
compiled with XPM support, and optionally with the added extension
-mono to indicate that rxvt-unicode runs on a monochrome screen.