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 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 rxvtperl(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
         can see that the urxvt binary is larger (due to some encoding tables
         always being compiled in), but it actually uses less memory (RSS)
     I need to make it setuid/setgid to support utmp/ptys on my OS, is this
     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
+        freetype + fontconfig + xft + xlib + perl + ... + rxvt-unicode
-        all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options when it
+        itself to all be secure. Also, rxvt-unicode disables some options
-        detects that it runs setuid or setgid, which is not nice.
+        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
+        privileges for ptys, but some need it for utmp support). It is
-        rxvt-unicode doesn't support the library/setuid helper that your OS
+        planned to mvoe this into a forked handler process, but this is not
-        needs I'll be happy to assist you in implementing support for it.
+        yet done.
         So, while setuid/setgid operation is supported and not a problem on
         your typical single-user-no-other-logins unix desktop, always
         remember that its an awful lot of code, most of which isn't checked
         for security issues regularly.
         it.
     --disable-resources
         Removes any support for resource checking.
-    --enable-xgetdefault
-        Make resources checking via XGetDefault() instead of our small
-        version which only checks ~/.Xdefaults, or if that doesn't exist
-        then ~/.Xresources.
-        Please note that nowadays, things like XIM will automatically pull
-        in and use the full X resource manager, so the overhead of using it
-        might be very small, if nonexistant.
     --enable-strings (default: off)
         Add support for our possibly faster memset() function and other
         various routines, overriding your system's versions which may have
         been hand-crafted in assembly or may require extra libraries to link
         in. (this breaks ANSI-C rules and has problems on many GNU/Linux

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Comparing rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.txt (file contents):
Revision 1.37 by root, Wed Jan 11 05:29:40 2006 UTC vs.
Revision 1.42 by root, Thu Jan 12 23:16:31 2006 UTC