--- rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.txt 2005/10/25 20:22:39 1.25 +++ rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.1.txt 2005/12/22 16:44:10 1.27 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ rxvt [options] [-e command [ args ]] DESCRIPTION - rxvt-unicode, version 5.8, is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended + rxvt-unicode, version 6.0, 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 -- a significant @@ -269,6 +269,12 @@ run the program specified by the SHELL environment variable or, failing that, *sh(1)*. + Please note that you must specify a program with arguments. If you + want to run shell commands, you have to specify the shell, like + this: + + rxvt -e sh -c "shell commands" + -title *text* Window title (-T still respected); the default title is the basename of the program specified after the -e option, if any, otherwise the @@ -321,6 +327,12 @@ Turn on/off secondary screen scroll (default enabled); resource secondaryScroll. + -hold|+hold + Turn on/off hold window after exit support. If enabled, rxvt will + not immediately destroy its window when the program executed within + it exits. Instead, it will wait till it is being killed or closed by + the user; resource hold. + -keysym.*sym* *string* Remap a key symbol. See resource keysym. @@ -771,13 +783,16 @@ Enables "insecure" mode. Rxvt-unicode offers some escape sequences that echo arbitrary strings like the icon name or the locale. This could be abused if somebody gets 8-bit-clean access to your display, - whether throuh a mail client displaying mail bodies unfiltered or - though write(1). Therefore, these sequences are disabled by default. - (Note that other terminals, including xterm, have these sequences - enabled by default). You can enable them by setting this boolean - resource or specifying -insecure as an option. At the moment, this - enabled display-answer, locale, findfont, icon label and window - title requests as well as dynamic menubar dispatch. + whether through a mail client displaying mail bodies unfiltered or + through write(1) or any other means. Therefore, these sequences are + disabled by default. (Note that many other terminals, including + xterm, have these sequences enabled by default, which doesn't make + it safer, though). + + You can enable them by setting this boolean resource or specifying + -insecure as an option. At the moment, this enables display-answer, + locale, findfont, icon label and window title requests as well as + dynamic menubar dispatch. modifier: *modifier* Set the key to be interpreted as the Meta key to: alt, meta, hyper, @@ -797,6 +812,12 @@ scrollback buffer and switching to/from the secondary screen will instead scroll the screen up. + hold: *bool* + Turn on/off hold window after exit support. If enabled, rxvt will + not immediately destroy its window when the program executed within + it exits. Instead, it will wait till it is being killed or closed by + the user. + keysym.*sym*: *string* Compile *frills*: Associate *string* with keysym *sym*. The intervening resource name keysym. cannot be omitted. @@ -931,7 +952,7 @@ You can, however, switch fonts at runtime using escape sequences (and therefore using the menubar), e.g.: - printf '\e]701;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic" + printf '\e]710;%s\007' "9x15bold,xft:Kochi Gothic" rxvt-unicode will automatically re-apply these fonts to the output so far.