--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2006/01/31 00:25:16 1.111 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.pod 2006/07/10 04:01:33 1.115 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ like mongolian or scripts requiring extremely complex combining rules, like tibetan or devenagari. Don't expect pretty output when using these scripts. Most other scripts, latin, cyrillic, kanji, thai etc. should work -fine, though. A somewhat difficult case are left-to-right scripts, such +fine, though. A somewhat difficult case are right-to-left scripts, such as hebrew: B adopts the view that bidirectional algorithms belong into the application, not the terminal emulator (too many things -- such as cursor-movement while editing -- break otherwise), but that might @@ -44,17 +44,17 @@ Therefore another design rationale was the use of multiple fonts to display characters: The idea of a single unicode font which many other -programs force onto it's users never made sense to me: You should be able +programs force onto its users never made sense to me: You should be able to choose any font for any script freely. Apart from that, rxvt-unicode is also much better internationalised than -it's predecessor, supports things such as XFT and ISO 14755 that are handy +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 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 -without most of it's features to get a lean binary. It also comes with +without most of its features to get a lean binary. It also comes with a client/daemon pair that lets you open any number of terminal windows from within a single process, which makes startup time very fast and drastically reduces memory usage. See @@RXVT_NAME@@d(1) (daemon) and @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ smaller, but not (in general) larger. A (hopefully) reasonable default font list is always appended to it. See resource B for more details. -In short, to specify an X11 core font, just specify it's name or prefix it +In short, to specify an X11 core font, just specify its name or prefix it with C. To specify an XFT-font, you need to prefix it with C, e.g.: @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ =item B<-embed> I -Tells @@RXVT_NAME@@ to embed it's windows into an already-existing window, +Tells @@RXVT_NAME@@ to embed its windows into an already-existing window, which enables applications to easily embed a terminal. Right now, @@RXVT_NAME@@ will first unmap/map the specified window, so it @@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@ can start or end with whitespace. Please note that you need to double the C<\> in resource files, as -Xlib itself does it's own de-escaping (you can use C<\033> instead of +Xlib itself does its own de-escaping (you can use C<\033> instead of C<\e> (and so on), which will work with both Xt and @@RXVT_NAME@@'s own processing). @@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@ Start by pressing C and C together, then releasing them. The next special key (cursor keys, home etc.) you enter will not -invoke it's usual function but instead will insert the corresponding +invoke its usual function but instead will insert the corresponding keycap symbol. The symbol will only be entered when the key has been released, otherwise pressing e.g. C would enter the symbol for C, although your intention might have been to enter a @@ -1348,6 +1348,15 @@ a number 0-15, as a convenient shorthand to reference the colour name of color0-color15. +In addition to the colours defined above, @@RXVT_NAME@@ offers an +additional 72 colours. The first 64 of those (with indices 16 to 79) +consist of a 4*4*4 RGB colour cube (i.e. I), followed by 8 additional shades of gray (with indices 80 to 87). + +Together, all those colours implement the 88 colour xterm colours. Only +the first 16 can be changed using resources currently, the rest can only +be changed via command sequences ("escape codes"). + Note that B<-rv> (B<"reverseVideo: True">) simulates reverse video by always swapping the foreground/background colours. This is in contrast to I(1) where the colours are only swapped if they have not otherwise @@ -1425,7 +1434,7 @@ =item B Used by @@RXVT_NAME@@ to connect to the display and set to the correct -display in it's child processes. +display in its child processes. =item B @@ -1477,7 +1486,7 @@ Marc A. Lehmann L<< >> -L +L =back