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17 <li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
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19 <li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
20 <li><a href="#prepackaged_extensions">PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS</a></li>
21 <li><a href="#api_documentation">API DOCUMENTATION</a></li>
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24 <li><a href="#general_api_considerations">General API Considerations</a></li>
25 <li><a href="#extension_objects">Extension Objects</a></li>
26 <li><a href="#hooks">Hooks</a></li>
27 <li><a href="#variables_in_the_urxvt_package">Variables in the <code>urxvt</code> Package</a></li>
28 <li><a href="#functions_in_the_urxvt_package">Functions in the <code>urxvt</code> Package</a></li>
29 <li><a href="#rendition">RENDITION</a></li>
30 <li><a href="#the_urxvt__anyevent_class">The <code>urxvt::anyevent</code> Class</a></li>
31 <li><a href="#the_urxvt__term_class">The <code>urxvt::term</code> Class</a></li>
32 <li><a href="#the_urxvt__popup_class">The <code>urxvt::popup</code> Class</a></li>
33 <li><a href="#the_urxvt__timer_class">The <code>urxvt::timer</code> Class</a></li>
34 <li><a href="#the_urxvt__iow_class">The <code>urxvt::iow</code> Class</a></li>
35 <li><a href="#the_urxvt__iw_class">The <code>urxvt::iw</code> Class</a></li>
36 <li><a href="#the_urxvt__pw_class">The <code>urxvt::pw</code> Class</a></li>
37 </ul>
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39 <li><a href="#environment">ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
40 <ul>
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42 <li><a href="#urxvt_perl_verbosity">URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY</a></li>
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45 <li><a href="#author">AUTHOR</a></li>
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52 <hr />
53 <h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
54 <p>rxvtperl - rxvt-unicode's embedded perl interpreter</p>
55 <p>
56 </p>
57 <hr />
58 <h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
59 <pre>
60 # create a file grab_test in $HOME:</pre>
61 <pre>
62 sub on_sel_grab {
63 warn &quot;you selected &quot;, $_[0]-&gt;selection;
64 ()
65 }</pre>
66 <pre>
67 # start a rxvt using it:</pre>
68 <pre>
69 rxvt --perl-lib $HOME -pe grab_test</pre>
70 <p>
71 </p>
72 <hr />
73 <h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
74 <p>Everytime a terminal object gets created, extension scripts specified via
75 the <code>perl</code> resource are loaded and associated with it.</p>
76 <p>Scripts are compiled in a 'use strict' and 'use utf8' environment, and
77 thus must be encoded as UTF-8.</p>
78 <p>Each script will only ever be loaded once, even in rxvtd, where
79 scripts will be shared (but not enabled) for all terminals.</p>
80 <p>
81 </p>
82 <hr />
83 <h1><a name="prepackaged_extensions">PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS</a></h1>
84 <p>This section describes the extensions delivered with this release. You can
85 find them in <em>/opt/rxvt/lib/urxvt/perl/</em>.</p>
86 <p>You can activate them like this:</p>
87 <pre>
88 rxvt -pe &lt;extensionname&gt;</pre>
89 <p>Or by adding them to the resource for extensions loaded by default:</p>
90 <pre>
91 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,automove-background,selection-autotransform</pre>
92 <dl>
93 <dt><strong><a name="item_selection">selection (enabled by default)</a></strong>
94
95 <dd>
96 <p>(More) intelligent selection. This extension tries to be more intelligent
97 when the user extends selections (double-click and further clicks). Right
98 now, it tries to select words, urls and complete shell-quoted
99 arguments, which is very convenient, too, if your <em>ls</em> supports
100 <code>--quoting-style=shell</code>.</p>
101 </dd>
102 <dd>
103 <p>A double-click usually selects the word under the cursor, further clicks
104 will enlarge the selection.</p>
105 </dd>
106 <dd>
107 <p>The selection works by trying to match a number of regexes and displaying
108 them in increasing order of length. You can add your own regexes by
109 specifying resources of the form:</p>
110 </dd>
111 <dd>
112 <pre>
113 URxvt.selection.pattern-0: perl-regex
114 URxvt.selection.pattern-1: perl-regex
115 ...</pre>
116 </dd>
117 <dd>
118 <p>The index number (0, 1...) must not have any holes, and each regex must
119 contain at least one pair of capturing parentheses, which will be used for
120 the match. For example, the followign adds a regex that matches everything
121 between two vertical bars:</p>
122 </dd>
123 <dd>
124 <pre>
125 URxvt.selection.pattern-0: \\|([^|]+)\\|</pre>
126 </dd>
127 <dd>
128 <p>Another example: Programs I use often output ``absolute path: '' at the
129 beginning of a line when they process multiple files. The following
130 pattern matches the filename (note, there is a single space at the very
131 end):</p>
132 </dd>
133 <dd>
134 <pre>
135 URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ^(/[^:]+):\</pre>
136 </dd>
137 <dd>
138 <p>You can look at the source of the selection extension to see more
139 interesting uses, such as parsing a line from beginning to end.</p>
140 </dd>
141 <dd>
142 <p>This extension also offers following bindable keyboard commands:</p>
143 </dd>
144 <dl>
145 <dt><strong><a name="item_rot13">rot13</a></strong>
146
147 <dd>
148 <p>Rot-13 the selection when activated. Used via keyboard trigger:</p>
149 </dd>
150 <dd>
151 <pre>
152 URxvt.keysym.C-M-r: perl:selection:rot13</pre>
153 </dd>
154 </li>
155 </dl>
156 <dt><strong><a name="item_popup">option-popup (enabled by default)</a></strong>
157
158 <dd>
159 <p>Binds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button2 that lets you toggle (some) options at
160 runtime.</p>
161 </dd>
162 <dd>
163 <p>Other extensions can extend this popup menu by pushing a code reference
164 onto <code>@{ $term-</code>{option_popup_hook} }&gt;, which gets called whenever the
165 popup is being displayed.</p>
166 </dd>
167 <dd>
168 <p>It's sole argument is the popup menu, which can be modified. It should
169 either return nothing or a string, the initial boolean value and a code
170 reference. The string will be used as button text and the code reference
171 will be called when the toggle changes, with the new boolean value as
172 first argument.</p>
173 </dd>
174 <dd>
175 <p>The following will add an entry <code>myoption</code> that changes
176 <code>$self-</code>{myoption}&gt;:</p>
177 </dd>
178 <dd>
179 <pre>
180 push @{ $self-&gt;{term}{option_popup_hook} }, sub {
181 (&quot;my option&quot; =&gt; $myoption, sub { $self-&gt;{myoption} = $_[0] })
182 };</pre>
183 </dd>
184 </li>
185 <dt><strong>selection-popup (enabled by default)</strong>
186
187 <dd>
188 <p>Binds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button3 that lets you convert the selection
189 text into various other formats/action (such as uri unescaping, perl
190 evaluation, web-browser starting etc.), depending on content.</p>
191 </dd>
192 <dd>
193 <p>Other extensions can extend this popup menu by pushing a code reference
194 onto <code>@{ $term-</code>{selection_popup_hook} }&gt;, which gets called whenever the
195 popup is being displayed.</p>
196 </dd>
197 <dd>
198 <p>It's sole argument is the popup menu, which can be modified. The selection
199 is in <code>$_</code>, which can be used to decide wether to add something or not.
200 It should either return nothing or a string and a code reference. The
201 string will be used as button text and the code reference will be called
202 when the button gets activated and should transform <code>$_</code>.</p>
203 </dd>
204 <dd>
205 <p>The following will add an entry <code>a to b</code> that transforms all <code>a</code>s in
206 the selection to <code>b</code>s, but only if the selection currently contains any
207 <code>a</code>s:</p>
208 </dd>
209 <dd>
210 <pre>
211 push @{ $self-&gt;{term}{selection_popup_hook} }, sub {
212 /a/ ? (&quot;a to be&quot; =&gt; sub { s/a/b/g }
213 : ()
214 };</pre>
215 </dd>
216 </li>
217 <dt><strong><a name="item_searchable_2dscrollback_3chotkey_3e__28enabled_by_">searchable-scrollback&lt;hotkey&gt; (enabled by default)</a></strong>
218
219 <dd>
220 <p>Adds regex search functionality to the scrollback buffer, triggered
221 by a hotkey (default: <code>M-s</code>). While in search mode, normal terminal
222 input/output is suspended and a regex is displayed at the bottom of the
223 screen.</p>
224 </dd>
225 <dd>
226 <p>Inputting characters appends them to the regex and continues incremental
227 search. <code>BackSpace</code> removes a character from the regex, <code>Up</code> and <code>Down</code>
228 search upwards/downwards in the scrollback buffer, <code>End</code> jumps to the
229 bottom. <code>Escape</code> leaves search mode and returns to the point where search
230 was started, while <code>Enter</code> or <code>Return</code> stay at the current position and
231 additionally stores the first match in the current line into the primary
232 selection.</p>
233 </dd>
234 <dd>
235 <p>The regex defaults to ``(?i)'', resulting in a case-insensitive search. To
236 get a case-sensitive search you can delete this prefix using <code>BackSpace</code>
237 or simply use an uppercase character which removes the ``(?i)'' prefix.</p>
238 </dd>
239 <dd>
240 <p>See <em>perlre</em> for more info about perl regular expression syntax.</p>
241 </dd>
242 </li>
243 <dt><strong><a name="item_readline">readline (enabled by default)</a></strong>
244
245 <dd>
246 <p>A support package that tries to make editing with readline easier. At
247 the moment, it reacts to clicking shift-left mouse button by trying to
248 move the text cursor to this position. It does so by generating as many
249 cursor-left or cursor-right keypresses as required (the this only works
250 for programs that correctly support wide characters).</p>
251 </dd>
252 <dd>
253 <p>To avoid too many false positives, this is only done when:</p>
254 </dd>
255 <dl>
256 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_the_tty_is_in_icanon_state_2e">- the tty is in ICANON state.</a></strong>
257
258 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_the_text_cursor_is_visible_2e">- the text cursor is visible.</a></strong>
259
260 <dt><strong><a name="item__2d_the_primary_screen_is_currently_being_displaye">- the primary screen is currently being displayed.</a></strong>
261
262 <dt><strong><a name="item_same">- the mouse is on the same (multi-row-) line as the text cursor.</a></strong>
263
264 </dl>
265 <p>The normal selection mechanism isn't disabled, so quick successive clicks
266 might interfere with selection creation in harmless ways.</p>
267 <dt><strong><a name="item_selection_2dautotransform">selection-autotransform</a></strong>
268
269 <dd>
270 <p>This selection allows you to do automatic transforms on a selection
271 whenever a selection is made.</p>
272 </dd>
273 <dd>
274 <p>It works by specifying perl snippets (most useful is a single <code>s///</code>
275 operator) that modify <code>$_</code> as resources:</p>
276 </dd>
277 <dd>
278 <pre>
279 URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: transform
280 URxvt.selection-autotransform.1: transform
281 ...</pre>
282 </dd>
283 <dd>
284 <p>For example, the following will transform selections of the form
285 <code>filename:number</code>, often seen in compiler messages, into <code>vi +$filename
286 $word</code>:</p>
287 </dd>
288 <dd>
289 <pre>
290 URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^([^:[:space:]]+):(\\d+):?$/vi +$2 \\Q$1\\E\\x0d/</pre>
291 </dd>
292 <dd>
293 <p>And this example matches the same,but replaces it with vi-commands you can
294 paste directly into your (vi :) editor:</p>
295 </dd>
296 <dd>
297 <pre>
298 URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^([^:[:space:]]+(\\d+):?$/:e \\Q$1\\E\\x0d:$2\\x0d/</pre>
299 </dd>
300 <dd>
301 <p>Of course, this can be modified to suit your needs and your editor :)</p>
302 </dd>
303 <dd>
304 <p>To expand the example above to typical perl error messages (``XXX at
305 FILENAME line YYY.''), you need a slightly more elaborate solution:</p>
306 </dd>
307 <dd>
308 <pre>
309 URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ( at .*? line \\d+[,.])
310 URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^ at (.*?) line (\\d+)[,.]$/:e \\Q$1\E\\x0d:$2\\x0d/</pre>
311 </dd>
312 <dd>
313 <p>The first line tells the selection code to treat the unchanging part of
314 every error message as a selection pattern, and the second line transforms
315 the message into vi commands to load the file.</p>
316 </dd>
317 </li>
318 <dt><strong><a name="item_tabbed">tabbed</a></strong>
319
320 <dd>
321 <p>This transforms the terminal into a tabbar with additional terminals, that
322 is, it implements what is commonly refered to as ``tabbed terminal''. The topmost line
323 displays a ``[NEW]'' button, which, when clicked, will add a new tab, followed by one
324 button per tab.</p>
325 </dd>
326 <dd>
327 <p>Clicking a button will activate that tab. Pressing <strong>Shift-Left</strong> and
328 <strong>Shift-Right</strong> will switch to the tab left or right of the current one,
329 while <strong>Shift-Down</strong> creates a new tab.</p>
330 </dd>
331 <dd>
332 <p>The tabbar itself can be configured similarly to a normal terminal, but
333 with a resource class of <code>URxvt.tabbed</code>. In addition, it supports the
334 following four resources (shown with defaults):</p>
335 </dd>
336 <dd>
337 <pre>
338 URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-fg: &lt;colour-index, default 3&gt;
339 URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-bg: &lt;colour-index, default 0&gt;
340 URxvt.tabbed.tab-fg: &lt;colour-index, default 0&gt;
341 URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg: &lt;colour-index, default 1&gt;</pre>
342 </dd>
343 <dd>
344 <p>See <em>COLOR AND GRAPHICS</em> in the <code>rxvt(1)</code> manpage for valid
345 indices.</p>
346 </dd>
347 </li>
348 <dt><strong><a name="item_mark_2durls">mark-urls</a></strong>
349
350 <dd>
351 <p>Uses per-line display filtering (<code>on_line_update</code>) to underline urls and
352 make them clickable. When middle-clicked, the program specified in the
353 resource <code>urlLauncher</code> (default <code>x-www-browser</code>) will be started with
354 the URL as first argument.</p>
355 </dd>
356 </li>
357 <dt><strong><a name="item_xim_2donthespot">xim-onthespot</a></strong>
358
359 <dd>
360 <p>This (experimental) perl extension implements OnTheSpot editing. It does
361 not work perfectly, and some input methods don't seem to work well with
362 OnTheSpot editing in general, but it seems to work at leats for SCIM and
363 kinput2.</p>
364 </dd>
365 <dd>
366 <p>You enable it by specifying this extension and a preedit style of
367 <code>OnTheSpot</code>, i.e.:</p>
368 </dd>
369 <dd>
370 <pre>
371 rxvt -pt OnTheSpot -pe xim-onthespot</pre>
372 </dd>
373 </li>
374 <dt><strong><a name="item_automove_2dbackground">automove-background</a></strong>
375
376 <dd>
377 <p>This is basically a very small extension that dynamically changes the
378 background pixmap offset to the window position, in effect creating the
379 same effect as pseudo transparency with a custom pixmap. No scaling is
380 supported in this mode. Exmaple:</p>
381 </dd>
382 <dd>
383 <pre>
384 rxvt -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background</pre>
385 </dd>
386 </li>
387 <dt><strong><a name="item_block_2dgraphics_2dto_2dascii">block-graphics-to-ascii</a></strong>
388
389 <dd>
390 <p>A not very useful example of filtering all text output to the terminal
391 by replacing all line-drawing characters (U+2500 .. U+259F) by a
392 similar-looking ascii character.</p>
393 </dd>
394 </li>
395 <dt><strong><a name="item_digital_2dclock">digital-clock</a></strong>
396
397 <dd>
398 <p>Displays a digital clock using the built-in overlay.</p>
399 </dd>
400 </li>
401 <dt><strong><a name="item_remote_2dclipboard">remote-clipboard</a></strong>
402
403 <dd>
404 <p>Somewhat of a misnomer, this extension adds two menu entries to the
405 selection popup that allows one ti run external commands to store the
406 selection somewhere and fetch it again.</p>
407 </dd>
408 <dd>
409 <p>We use it to implement a ``distributed selection mechanism'', which just
410 means that one command uploads the file to a remote server, and another
411 reads it.</p>
412 </dd>
413 <dd>
414 <p>The commands can be set using the <code>URxvt.remote-selection.store</code> and
415 <code>URxvt.remote-selection.fetch</code> resources. The first should read the
416 selection to store from STDIN (always in UTF-8), the second should provide
417 the selection data on STDOUT (also in UTF-8).</p>
418 </dd>
419 <dd>
420 <p>The defaults (which are likely useless to you) use rsh and cat:</p>
421 </dd>
422 <dd>
423 <pre>
424 URxvt.remote-selection.store: rsh ruth 'cat &gt;/tmp/distributed-selection'
425 URxvt.remote-selection.fetch: rsh ruth 'cat /tmp/distributed-selection'</pre>
426 </dd>
427 </li>
428 <dt><strong><a name="item_selection_2dpastebin">selection-pastebin</a></strong>
429
430 <dd>
431 <p>This is a little rarely useful extension that Uploads the selection as
432 textfile to a remote site (or does other things). (The implementation is
433 not currently secure for use in a multiuser environment as it writes to
434 <em>/tmp</em> directly.).</p>
435 </dd>
436 <dd>
437 <p>It listens to the <code>selection-pastebin:remote-pastebin</code> keyboard command,
438 i.e.</p>
439 </dd>
440 <dd>
441 <pre>
442 URxvt.keysym.C-M-e: perl:selection-pastebin:remote-pastebin</pre>
443 </dd>
444 <dd>
445 <p>Pressing this combination runs a command with <code>%</code> replaced by the name of
446 the textfile. This command can be set via a resource:</p>
447 </dd>
448 <dd>
449 <pre>
450 URxvt.selection-pastebin.cmd: rsync -apP % ruth:/var/www/www.ta-sa.org/files/txt/.</pre>
451 </dd>
452 <dd>
453 <p>And the default is likely not useful to anybody but the few people around
454 here :)</p>
455 </dd>
456 <dd>
457 <p>The name of the textfile is the hex encoded md5 sum of the selection, so
458 the same content should lead to the same filename.</p>
459 </dd>
460 <dd>
461 <p>After a successful upload the selection will be replaced by the text given
462 in the <code>selection-pastebin-url</code> resource (again, the % is the placeholder
463 for the filename):</p>
464 </dd>
465 <dd>
466 <pre>
467 URxvt.selection-pastebin.url: <a href="http://www.ta-sa.org/files/txt/%">http://www.ta-sa.org/files/txt/%</a></pre>
468 </dd>
469 </li>
470 <dt><strong><a name="item_example_2drefresh_2dhooks">example-refresh-hooks</a></strong>
471
472 <dd>
473 <p>Displays a very simple digital clock in the upper right corner of the
474 window. Illustrates overwriting the refresh callbacks to create your own
475 overlays or changes.</p>
476 </dd>
477 </li>
478 </dl>
479 <p>
480 </p>
481 <hr />
482 <h1><a name="api_documentation">API DOCUMENTATION</a></h1>
483 <p>
484 </p>
485 <h2><a name="general_api_considerations">General API Considerations</a></h2>
486 <p>All objects (such as terminals, time watchers etc.) are typical
487 reference-to-hash objects. The hash can be used to store anything you
488 like. All members starting with an underscore (such as <code>_ptr</code> or
489 <code>_hook</code>) are reserved for internal uses and <strong>MUST NOT</strong> be accessed or
490 modified).</p>
491 <p>When objects are destroyed on the C++ side, the perl object hashes are
492 emptied, so its best to store related objects such as time watchers and
493 the like inside the terminal object so they get destroyed as soon as the
494 terminal is destroyed.</p>
495 <p>Argument names also often indicate the type of a parameter. Here are some
496 hints on what they mean:</p>
497 <dl>
498 <dt><strong><a name="item__text">$text</a></strong>
499
500 <dd>
501 <p>Rxvt-unicodes special way of encoding text, where one ``unicode'' character
502 always represents one screen cell. See <a href="#item_row_t">ROW_t</a> for a discussion of this format.</p>
503 </dd>
504 </li>
505 <dt><strong><a name="item__string">$string</a></strong>
506
507 <dd>
508 <p>A perl text string, with an emphasis on <em>text</em>. It can store all unicode
509 characters and is to be distinguished with text encoded in a specific
510 encoding (often locale-specific) and binary data.</p>
511 </dd>
512 </li>
513 <dt><strong><a name="item__octets">$octets</a></strong>
514
515 <dd>
516 <p>Either binary data or - more common - a text string encoded in a
517 locale-specific way.</p>
518 </dd>
519 </li>
520 </dl>
521 <p>
522 </p>
523 <h2><a name="extension_objects">Extension Objects</a></h2>
524 <p>Every perl extension is a perl class. A separate perl object is created
525 for each terminal and each extension and passed as the first parameter to
526 hooks. So extensions can use their <code>$self</code> object without having to think
527 about other extensions, with the exception of methods and members that
528 begin with an underscore character <code>_</code>: these are reserved for internal
529 use.</p>
530 <p>Although it isn't a <code>urxvt::term</code> object, you can call all methods of the
531 <code>urxvt::term</code> class on this object.</p>
532 <p>It has the following methods and data members:</p>
533 <dl>
534 <dt><strong><a name="item__urxvt_term">$urxvt_term = $self-&gt;{term}</a></strong>
535
536 <dd>
537 <p>Returns the <code>urxvt::term</code> object associated with this instance of the
538 extension. This member <em>must not</em> be changed in any way.</p>
539 </dd>
540 </li>
541 <dt><strong><a name="item_enable">$self-&gt;enable ($hook_name =&gt; $cb, [$hook_name =&gt; $cb..])</a></strong>
542
543 <dd>
544 <p>Dynamically enable the given hooks (named without the <code>on_</code> prefix) for
545 this extension, replacing any previous hook. This is useful when you want
546 to overwrite time-critical hooks only temporarily.</p>
547 </dd>
548 </li>
549 <dt><strong><a name="item_disable">$self-&gt;disable ($hook_name[, $hook_name..])</a></strong>
550
551 <dd>
552 <p>Dynamically disable the given hooks.</p>
553 </dd>
554 </li>
555 </dl>
556 <p>
557 </p>
558 <h2><a name="hooks">Hooks</a></h2>
559 <p>The following subroutines can be declared in extension files, and will be
560 called whenever the relevant event happens.</p>
561 <p>The first argument passed to them is an extension oject as described in
562 the in the <code>Extension Objects</code> section.</p>
563 <p><strong>All</strong> of these hooks must return a boolean value. If any of the called
564 hooks returns true, then the event counts as being <em>consumed</em>, and the
565 relevant action might not be carried out by the C++ code.</p>
566 <p><em>When in doubt, return a false value (preferably <code>()</code>). </em>&gt;</p>
567 <dl>
568 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_init__24term">on_init $term</a></strong>
569
570 <dd>
571 <p>Called after a new terminal object has been initialized, but before
572 windows are created or the command gets run. Most methods are unsafe to
573 call or deliver senseless data, as terminal size and other characteristics
574 have not yet been determined. You can safely query and change resources
575 and options, though. For many purposes the <code>on_start</code> hook is a better
576 place.</p>
577 </dd>
578 </li>
579 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_start__24term">on_start $term</a></strong>
580
581 <dd>
582 <p>Called at the very end of initialisation of a new terminal, just before
583 trying to map (display) the toplevel and returning to the mainloop.</p>
584 </dd>
585 </li>
586 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_destroy__24term">on_destroy $term</a></strong>
587
588 <dd>
589 <p>Called whenever something tries to destroy terminal, when the terminal is
590 still fully functional (not for long, though).</p>
591 </dd>
592 </li>
593 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_reset__24term">on_reset $term</a></strong>
594
595 <dd>
596 <p>Called after the screen is ``reset'' for any reason, such as resizing or
597 control sequences. Here is where you can react on changes to size-related
598 variables.</p>
599 </dd>
600 </li>
601 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_child_start__24term_2c__24pid">on_child_start $term, $pid</a></strong>
602
603 <dd>
604 <p>Called just after the child process has been <code>fork</code>ed.</p>
605 </dd>
606 </li>
607 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_child_exit__24term_2c__24status">on_child_exit $term, $status</a></strong>
608
609 <dd>
610 <p>Called just after the child process has exited. <code>$status</code> is the status
611 from <code>waitpid</code>.</p>
612 </dd>
613 </li>
614 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_sel_make__24term_2c__24eventtime">on_sel_make $term, $eventtime</a></strong>
615
616 <dd>
617 <p>Called whenever a selection has been made by the user, but before the
618 selection text is copied, so changes to the beginning, end or type of the
619 selection will be honored.</p>
620 </dd>
621 <dd>
622 <p>Returning a true value aborts selection making by urxvt, in which case you
623 have to make a selection yourself by calling <a href="#item_selection_grab"><code>$term-&gt;selection_grab</code></a>.</p>
624 </dd>
625 </li>
626 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_sel_grab__24term_2c__24eventtime">on_sel_grab $term, $eventtime</a></strong>
627
628 <dd>
629 <p>Called whenever a selection has been copied, but before the selection is
630 requested from the server. The selection text can be queried and changed
631 by calling <a href="#item_selection"><code>$term-&gt;selection</code></a>.</p>
632 </dd>
633 <dd>
634 <p>Returning a true value aborts selection grabbing. It will still be hilighted.</p>
635 </dd>
636 </li>
637 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_sel_extend__24term">on_sel_extend $term</a></strong>
638
639 <dd>
640 <p>Called whenever the user tries to extend the selection (e.g. with a double
641 click) and is either supposed to return false (normal operation), or
642 should extend the selection itelf and return true to suppress the built-in
643 processing. This can happen multiple times, as long as the callback
644 returns true, it will be called on every further click by the user and is
645 supposed to enlarge the selection more and more, if possible.</p>
646 </dd>
647 <dd>
648 <p>See the <em>selection</em> example extension.</p>
649 </dd>
650 </li>
651 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_view_change__24term_2c__24offset">on_view_change $term, $offset</a></strong>
652
653 <dd>
654 <p>Called whenever the view offset changes, i..e the user or program
655 scrolls. Offset <code>0</code> means display the normal terminal, positive values
656 show this many lines of scrollback.</p>
657 </dd>
658 </li>
659 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_scroll_back__24term_2c__24lines_2c__24saved">on_scroll_back $term, $lines, $saved</a></strong>
660
661 <dd>
662 <p>Called whenever lines scroll out of the terminal area into the scrollback
663 buffer. <code>$lines</code> is the number of lines scrolled out and may be larger
664 than the scroll back buffer or the terminal.</p>
665 </dd>
666 <dd>
667 <p>It is called before lines are scrolled out (so rows 0 .. min ($lines - 1,
668 $nrow - 1) represent the lines to be scrolled out). <code>$saved</code> is the total
669 number of lines that will be in the scrollback buffer.</p>
670 </dd>
671 </li>
672 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_osc_seq__24term_2c__24op_2c__24args">on_osc_seq $term, $op, $args</a></strong>
673
674 <dd>
675 <p>Called on every OSC sequence and can be used to suppress it or modify its
676 behaviour. The default should be to return an empty list. A true value
677 suppresses execution of the request completely. Make sure you don't get
678 confused by recursive invocations when you output an osc sequence within
679 this callback.</p>
680 </dd>
681 <dd>
682 <p><code>on_osc_seq_perl</code> should be used for new behaviour.</p>
683 </dd>
684 </li>
685 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_osc_seq_perl__24term_2c__24string">on_osc_seq_perl $term, $string</a></strong>
686
687 <dd>
688 <p>Called whenever the <strong>ESC ] 777 ; string ST</strong> command sequence (OSC =
689 operating system command) is processed. Cursor position and other state
690 information is up-to-date when this happens. For interoperability, the
691 string should start with the extension name and a colon, to distinguish
692 it from commands for other extensions, and this might be enforced in the
693 future.</p>
694 </dd>
695 <dd>
696 <p>Be careful not ever to trust (in a security sense) the data you receive,
697 as its source can not easily be controleld (e-mail content, messages from
698 other users on the same system etc.).</p>
699 </dd>
700 </li>
701 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_add_lines__24term_2c__24string">on_add_lines $term, $string</a></strong>
702
703 <dd>
704 <p>Called whenever text is about to be output, with the text as argument. You
705 can filter/change and output the text yourself by returning a true value
706 and calling <a href="#item_scr_add_lines"><code>$term-&gt;scr_add_lines</code></a> yourself. Please note that this
707 might be very slow, however, as your hook is called for <strong>all</strong> text being
708 output.</p>
709 </dd>
710 </li>
711 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_tt_write__24term_2c__24octets">on_tt_write $term, $octets</a></strong>
712
713 <dd>
714 <p>Called whenever some data is written to the tty/pty and can be used to
715 suppress or filter tty input.</p>
716 </dd>
717 </li>
718 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_line_update__24term_2c__24row">on_line_update $term, $row</a></strong>
719
720 <dd>
721 <p>Called whenever a line was updated or changed. Can be used to filter
722 screen output (e.g. underline urls or other useless stuff). Only lines
723 that are being shown will be filtered, and, due to performance reasons,
724 not always immediately.</p>
725 </dd>
726 <dd>
727 <p>The row number is always the topmost row of the line if the line spans
728 multiple rows.</p>
729 </dd>
730 <dd>
731 <p>Please note that, if you change the line, then the hook might get called
732 later with the already-modified line (e.g. if unrelated parts change), so
733 you cannot just toggle rendition bits, but only set them.</p>
734 </dd>
735 </li>
736 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_refresh_begin__24term">on_refresh_begin $term</a></strong>
737
738 <dd>
739 <p>Called just before the screen gets redrawn. Can be used for overlay
740 or similar effects by modify terminal contents in refresh_begin, and
741 restoring them in refresh_end. The built-in overlay and selection display
742 code is run after this hook, and takes precedence.</p>
743 </dd>
744 </li>
745 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_refresh_end__24term">on_refresh_end $term</a></strong>
746
747 <dd>
748 <p>Called just after the screen gets redrawn. See <code>on_refresh_begin</code>.</p>
749 </dd>
750 </li>
751 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_user_command__24term_2c__24string">on_user_command $term, $string</a></strong>
752
753 <dd>
754 <p>Called whenever the a user-configured event is being activated (e.g. via
755 a <code>perl:string</code> action bound to a key, see description of the <strong>keysym</strong>
756 resource in the <code>rxvt(1)</code> manpage).</p>
757 </dd>
758 <dd>
759 <p>The event is simply the action string. This interface is assumed to change
760 slightly in the future.</p>
761 </dd>
762 </li>
763 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_resize_all_windows__24tern_2c__24new_width_2c__">on_resize_all_windows $tern, $new_width, $new_height</a></strong>
764
765 <dd>
766 <p>Called just after the new window size has been calculcated, but before
767 windows are actually being resized or hints are being set. If this hook
768 returns TRUE, setting of the window hints is being skipped.</p>
769 </dd>
770 </li>
771 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_x_event__24term_2c__24event">on_x_event $term, $event</a></strong>
772
773 <dd>
774 <p>Called on every X event received on the vt window (and possibly other
775 windows). Should only be used as a last resort. Most event structure
776 members are not passed.</p>
777 </dd>
778 </li>
779 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_focus_in__24term">on_focus_in $term</a></strong>
780
781 <dd>
782 <p>Called whenever the window gets the keyboard focus, before rxvt-unicode
783 does focus in processing.</p>
784 </dd>
785 </li>
786 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_focus_out__24term">on_focus_out $term</a></strong>
787
788 <dd>
789 <p>Called wheneever the window loses keyboard focus, before rxvt-unicode does
790 focus out processing.</p>
791 </dd>
792 </li>
793 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_configure_notify__24term_2c__24event">on_configure_notify $term, $event</a></strong>
794
795 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_property_notify__24term_2c__24event">on_property_notify $term, $event</a></strong>
796
797 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_key_press__24term_2c__24event_2c__24keysym_2c__">on_key_press $term, $event, $keysym, $octets</a></strong>
798
799 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_key_release__24term_2c__24event_2c__24keysym">on_key_release $term, $event, $keysym</a></strong>
800
801 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_button_press__24term_2c__24event">on_button_press $term, $event</a></strong>
802
803 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_button_release__24term_2c__24event">on_button_release $term, $event</a></strong>
804
805 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_motion_notify__24term_2c__24event">on_motion_notify $term, $event</a></strong>
806
807 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_map_notify__24term_2c__24event">on_map_notify $term, $event</a></strong>
808
809 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_unmap_notify__24term_2c__24event">on_unmap_notify $term, $event</a></strong>
810
811 <dd>
812 <p>Called whenever the corresponding X event is received for the terminal If
813 the hook returns true, then the even will be ignored by rxvt-unicode.</p>
814 </dd>
815 <dd>
816 <p>The event is a hash with most values as named by Xlib (see the XEvent
817 manpage), with the additional members <code>row</code> and <code>col</code>, which are the
818 (real, not screen-based) row and column under the mouse cursor.</p>
819 </dd>
820 <dd>
821 <p><code>on_key_press</code> additionally receives the string rxvt-unicode would
822 output, if any, in locale-specific encoding.</p>
823 </dd>
824 <dd>
825 <p>subwindow.</p>
826 </dd>
827 </li>
828 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_client_message__24term_2c__24event">on_client_message $term, $event</a></strong>
829
830 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_wm_protocols__24term_2c__24event">on_wm_protocols $term, $event</a></strong>
831
832 <dt><strong><a name="item_on_wm_delete_window__24term_2c__24event">on_wm_delete_window $term, $event</a></strong>
833
834 <dd>
835 <p>Called when various types of ClientMessage events are received (all with
836 format=32, WM_PROTOCOLS or WM_PROTOCOLS:WM_DELETE_WINDOW).</p>
837 </dd>
838 </li>
839 </dl>
840 <p>
841 </p>
842 <h2><a name="variables_in_the_urxvt_package">Variables in the <code>urxvt</code> Package</a></h2>
843 <dl>
844 <dt><strong><a name="item__urxvt__libdir">$urxvt::LIBDIR</a></strong>
845
846 <dd>
847 <p>The rxvt-unicode library directory, where, among other things, the perl
848 modules and scripts are stored.</p>
849 </dd>
850 </li>
851 <dt><strong><a name="item__urxvt__resclass_">$urxvt::RESCLASS, $urxvt::RESCLASS</a></strong>
852
853 <dd>
854 <p>The resource class and name rxvt-unicode uses to look up X resources.</p>
855 </dd>
856 </li>
857 <dt><strong><a name="item__urxvt__rxvtname">$urxvt::RXVTNAME</a></strong>
858
859 <dd>
860 <p>The basename of the installed binaries, usually <code>urxvt</code>.</p>
861 </dd>
862 </li>
863 <dt><strong><a name="item__urxvt__term">$urxvt::TERM</a></strong>
864
865 <dd>
866 <p>The current terminal. This variable stores the current <code>urxvt::term</code>
867 object, whenever a callback/hook is executing.</p>
868 </dd>
869 </li>
870 <dt><strong><a name="item__urxvt__term_init">@urxvt::TERM_INIT</a></strong>
871
872 <dd>
873 <p>All coderefs in this array will be called as methods of the next newly
874 created <code>urxvt::term</code> object (during the <code>on_init</code> phase). The array
875 gets cleared before the codereferences that were in it are being executed,
876 so coderefs can push themselves onto it again if they so desire.</p>
877 </dd>
878 <dd>
879 <p>This complements to the perl-eval commandline option, but gets executed
880 first.</p>
881 </dd>
882 </li>
883 <dt><strong><a name="item__urxvt__term_ext">@urxvt::TERM_EXT</a></strong>
884
885 <dd>
886 <p>Works similar to <code>@TERM_INIT</code>, but contains perl package/class names, which
887 get registered as normal extensions after calling the hooks in <code>@TERM_INIT</code>
888 but before other extensions. Gets cleared just like <code>@TERM_INIT</code>.</p>
889 </dd>
890 </li>
891 </dl>
892 <p>
893 </p>
894 <h2><a name="functions_in_the_urxvt_package">Functions in the <code>urxvt</code> Package</a></h2>
895 <dl>
896 <dt><strong><a name="item_urxvt_3a_3afatal__24errormessage">urxvt::fatal $errormessage</a></strong>
897
898 <dd>
899 <p>Fatally aborts execution with the given error message. Avoid at all
900 costs! The only time this is acceptable is when the terminal process
901 starts up.</p>
902 </dd>
903 </li>
904 <dt><strong><a name="item_urxvt_3a_3awarn__24string">urxvt::warn $string</a></strong>
905
906 <dd>
907 <p>Calls <code>rxvt_warn</code> with the given string which should not include a
908 newline. The module also overwrites the <code>warn</code> builtin with a function
909 that calls this function.</p>
910 </dd>
911 <dd>
912 <p>Using this function has the advantage that its output ends up in the
913 correct place, e.g. on stderr of the connecting urxvtc client.</p>
914 </dd>
915 <dd>
916 <p>Messages have a size limit of 1023 bytes currently.</p>
917 </dd>
918 </li>
919 <dt><strong><a name="item__terms">@terms = urxvt::termlist</a></strong>
920
921 <dd>
922 <p>Returns all urxvt::term objects that exist in this process, regardless of
923 wether they are started, being destroyed etc., so be careful. Only term
924 objects that have perl extensions attached will be returned (because there
925 is no urxvt::term objet associated with others).</p>
926 </dd>
927 </li>
928 <dt><strong><a name="item__time">$time = urxvt::NOW</a></strong>
929
930 <dd>
931 <p>Returns the ``current time'' (as per the event loop).</p>
932 </dd>
933 </li>
934 <dt><strong><a name="item_urxvt_3a_3acurrenttime">urxvt::CurrentTime</a></strong>
935
936 <dt><strong><a name="item_urxvt_3a_3ashiftmask_2c_lockmask_2c_controlmask_2c">urxvt::ShiftMask, LockMask, ControlMask, Mod1Mask, Mod2Mask,
937 Mod3Mask, Mod4Mask, Mod5Mask, Button1Mask, Button2Mask, Button3Mask,
938 Button4Mask, Button5Mask, AnyModifier</a></strong>
939
940 <dt><strong><a name="item_urxvt_3a_3anoeventmask_2c_keypressmask_2c_keyrelea">urxvt::NoEventMask, KeyPressMask, KeyReleaseMask,
941 ButtonPressMask, ButtonReleaseMask, EnterWindowMask, LeaveWindowMask,
942 PointerMotionMask, PointerMotionHintMask, Button1MotionMask, Button2MotionMask,
943 Button3MotionMask, Button4MotionMask, Button5MotionMask, ButtonMotionMask,
944 KeymapStateMask, ExposureMask, VisibilityChangeMask, StructureNotifyMask,
945 ResizeRedirectMask, SubstructureNotifyMask, SubstructureRedirectMask,
946 FocusChangeMask, PropertyChangeMask, ColormapChangeMask, OwnerGrabButtonMask</a></strong>
947
948 <dt><strong><a name="item_urxvt_3a_3akeypress_2c_keyrelease_2c_buttonpress_2">urxvt::KeyPress, KeyRelease, ButtonPress, ButtonRelease, MotionNotify,
949 EnterNotify, LeaveNotify, FocusIn, FocusOut, KeymapNotify, Expose,
950 GraphicsExpose, NoExpose, VisibilityNotify, CreateNotify, DestroyNotify,
951 UnmapNotify, MapNotify, MapRequest, ReparentNotify, ConfigureNotify,
952 ConfigureRequest, GravityNotify, ResizeRequest, CirculateNotify,
953 CirculateRequest, PropertyNotify, SelectionClear, SelectionRequest,
954 SelectionNotify, ColormapNotify, ClientMessage, MappingNotify</a></strong>
955
956 <dd>
957 <p>Various constants for use in X calls and event processing.</p>
958 </dd>
959 </li>
960 </dl>
961 <p>
962 </p>
963 <h2><a name="rendition">RENDITION</a></h2>
964 <p>Rendition bitsets contain information about colour, font, font styles and
965 similar information for each screen cell.</p>
966 <p>The following ``macros'' deal with changes in rendition sets. You should
967 never just create a bitset, you should always modify an existing one,
968 as they contain important information required for correct operation of
969 rxvt-unicode.</p>
970 <dl>
971 <dt><strong><a name="item__rend">$rend = urxvt::DEFAULT_RSTYLE</a></strong>
972
973 <dd>
974 <p>Returns the default rendition, as used when the terminal is starting up or
975 being reset. Useful as a base to start when creating renditions.</p>
976 </dd>
977 </li>
978 <dt><strong>$rend = urxvt::OVERLAY_RSTYLE</strong>
979
980 <dd>
981 <p>Return the rendition mask used for overlays by default.</p>
982 </dd>
983 </li>
984 <dt><strong><a name="item__rendbit">$rendbit = urxvt::RS_Bold, RS_Italic, RS_Blink, RS_RVid, RS_Uline</a></strong>
985
986 <dd>
987 <p>Return the bit that enabled bold, italic, blink, reverse-video and
988 underline, respectively. To enable such a style, just logically OR it into
989 the bitset.</p>
990 </dd>
991 </li>
992 <dt><strong><a name="item__foreground">$foreground = urxvt::GET_BASEFG $rend</a></strong>
993
994 <dt><strong><a name="item__background">$background = urxvt::GET_BASEBG $rend</a></strong>
995
996 <dd>
997 <p>Return the foreground/background colour index, respectively.</p>
998 </dd>
999 </li>
1000 <dt><strong>$rend = urxvt::SET_FGCOLOR $rend, $new_colour</strong>
1001
1002 <dt><strong>$rend = urxvt::SET_BGCOLOR $rend, $new_colour</strong>
1003
1004 <dt><strong>$rend = urxvt::SET_COLOR $rend, $new_fg, $new_bg</strong>
1005
1006 <dd>
1007 <p>Replace the foreground/background colour in the rendition mask with the
1008 specified one.</p>
1009 </dd>
1010 </li>
1011 <dt><strong><a name="item__value">$value = urxvt::GET_CUSTOM $rend</a></strong>
1012
1013 <dd>
1014 <p>Return the ``custom'' value: Every rendition has 5 bits for use by
1015 extensions. They can be set and changed as you like and are initially
1016 zero.</p>
1017 </dd>
1018 </li>
1019 <dt><strong>$rend = urxvt::SET_CUSTOM $rend, $new_value</strong>
1020
1021 <dd>
1022 <p>Change the custom value.</p>
1023 </dd>
1024 </li>
1025 </dl>
1026 <p>
1027 </p>
1028 <h2><a name="the_urxvt__anyevent_class">The <code>urxvt::anyevent</code> Class</a></h2>
1029 <p>The sole purpose of this class is to deliver an interface to the
1030 <code>AnyEvent</code> module - any module using it will work inside urxvt without
1031 further programming. The only exception is that you cannot wait on
1032 condition variables, but non-blocking condvar use is ok. What this means
1033 is that you cannot use blocking APIs, but the non-blocking variant should
1034 work.</p>
1035 <p>
1036 </p>
1037 <h2><a name="the_urxvt__term_class">The <code>urxvt::term</code> Class</a></h2>
1038 <dl>
1039 <dt><strong><a name="item__term">$term = new urxvt::term $envhashref, $rxvtname, [arg...]</a></strong>
1040
1041 <dd>
1042 <p>Creates a new terminal, very similar as if you had started it with system
1043 <code>$rxvtname, arg...</code>. <code>$envhashref</code> must be a reference to a <code>%ENV</code>-like
1044 hash which defines the environment of the new terminal.</p>
1045 </dd>
1046 <dd>
1047 <p>Croaks (and probably outputs an error message) if the new instance
1048 couldn't be created. Returns <code>undef</code> if the new instance didn't
1049 initialise perl, and the terminal object otherwise. The <code>init</code> and
1050 <a href="#item_start"><code>start</code></a> hooks will be called before this call returns, and are free to
1051 refer to global data (which is race free).</p>
1052 </dd>
1053 </li>
1054 <dt><strong><a name="item_destroy">$term-&gt;destroy</a></strong>
1055
1056 <dd>
1057 <p>Destroy the terminal object (close the window, free resources
1058 etc.). Please note that rxvt will not exit as long as any event
1059 watchers (timers, io watchers) are still active.</p>
1060 </dd>
1061 </li>
1062 <dt><strong><a name="item_exec_async">$term-&gt;exec_async ($cmd[, @args])</a></strong>
1063
1064 <dd>
1065 <p>Works like the combination of the <code>fork</code>/<code>exec</code> builtins, which executes
1066 (``starts'') programs in the background. This function takes care of setting
1067 the user environment before exec'ing the command (e.g. <code>PATH</code>) and should
1068 be preferred over explicit calls to <code>exec</code> or <code>system</code>.</p>
1069 </dd>
1070 <dd>
1071 <p>Returns the pid of the subprocess or <code>undef</code> on error.</p>
1072 </dd>
1073 </li>
1074 <dt><strong><a name="item_option">$isset = $term-&gt;option ($optval[, $set])</a></strong>
1075
1076 <dd>
1077 <p>Returns true if the option specified by <code>$optval</code> is enabled, and
1078 optionally change it. All option values are stored by name in the hash
1079 <code>%urxvt::OPTION</code>. Options not enabled in this binary are not in the hash.</p>
1080 </dd>
1081 <dd>
1082 <p>Here is a a likely non-exhaustive list of option names, please see the
1083 source file <em>/src/optinc.h</em> to see the actual list:</p>
1084 </dd>
1085 <dd>
1086 <pre>
1087 borderLess console cursorBlink cursorUnderline hold iconic insecure
1088 intensityStyles jumpScroll loginShell mapAlert meta8 mouseWheelScrollPage
1089 override-redirect pastableTabs pointerBlank reverseVideo scrollBar
1090 scrollBar_floating scrollBar_right scrollTtyKeypress scrollTtyOutput
1091 scrollWithBuffer secondaryScreen secondaryScroll skipBuiltinGlyphs
1092 transparent tripleclickwords utmpInhibit visualBell</pre>
1093 </dd>
1094 </li>
1095 <dt><strong><a name="item_resource">$value = $term-&gt;resource ($name[, $newval])</a></strong>
1096
1097 <dd>
1098 <p>Returns the current resource value associated with a given name and
1099 optionally sets a new value. Setting values is most useful in the <code>init</code>
1100 hook. Unset resources are returned and accepted as <code>undef</code>.</p>
1101 </dd>
1102 <dd>
1103 <p>The new value must be properly encoded to a suitable character encoding
1104 before passing it to this method. Similarly, the returned value may need
1105 to be converted from the used encoding to text.</p>
1106 </dd>
1107 <dd>
1108 <p>Resource names are as defined in <em>src/rsinc.h</em>. Colours can be specified
1109 as resource names of the form <code>color+&lt;index&gt;</code>, e.g. <code>color+5</code>. (will
1110 likely change).</p>
1111 </dd>
1112 <dd>
1113 <p>Please note that resource strings will currently only be freed when the
1114 terminal is destroyed, so changing options frequently will eat memory.</p>
1115 </dd>
1116 <dd>
1117 <p>Here is a a likely non-exhaustive list of resource names, not all of which
1118 are supported in every build, please see the source file <em>/src/rsinc.h</em>
1119 to see the actual list:</p>
1120 </dd>
1121 <dd>
1122 <pre>
1123 answerbackstring backgroundPixmap backspace_key boldFont boldItalicFont
1124 borderLess color cursorBlink cursorUnderline cutchars delete_key
1125 display_name embed ext_bwidth fade font geometry hold iconName
1126 imFont imLocale inputMethod insecure int_bwidth intensityStyles
1127 italicFont jumpScroll lineSpace loginShell mapAlert meta8 modifier
1128 mouseWheelScrollPage name override_redirect pastableTabs path perl_eval
1129 perl_ext_1 perl_ext_2 perl_lib pointerBlank pointerBlankDelay
1130 preeditType print_pipe pty_fd reverseVideo saveLines scrollBar
1131 scrollBar_align scrollBar_floating scrollBar_right scrollBar_thickness
1132 scrollTtyKeypress scrollTtyOutput scrollWithBuffer scrollstyle
1133 secondaryScreen secondaryScroll selectstyle shade term_name title
1134 transient_for transparent transparent_all tripleclickwords utmpInhibit
1135 visualBell</pre>
1136 </dd>
1137 </li>
1138 <dt><strong><a name="item_x_resource">$value = $term-&gt;x_resource ($pattern)</a></strong>
1139
1140 <dd>
1141 <p>Returns the X-Resource for the given pattern, excluding the program or
1142 class name, i.e. <a href="#item_x_resource"><code>$term-&gt;x_resource (&quot;boldFont&quot;)</code></a> should return the
1143 same value as used by this instance of rxvt-unicode. Returns <code>undef</code> if no
1144 resource with that pattern exists.</p>
1145 </dd>
1146 <dd>
1147 <p>This method should only be called during the <code>on_start</code> hook, as there is
1148 only one resource database per display, and later invocations might return
1149 the wrong resources.</p>
1150 </dd>
1151 </li>
1152 <dt><strong><a name="item_parse_keysym">$success = $term-&gt;parse_keysym ($keysym_spec, $command_string)</a></strong>
1153
1154 <dd>
1155 <p>Adds a keymap translation exactly as specified via a resource. See the
1156 <code>keysym</code> resource in the <code>rxvt(1)</code> manpage.</p>
1157 </dd>
1158 </li>
1159 <dt><strong><a name="item_rstyle">$rend = $term-&gt;rstyle ([$new_rstyle])</a></strong>
1160
1161 <dd>
1162 <p>Return and optionally change the current rendition. Text that is output by
1163 the terminal application will use this style.</p>
1164 </dd>
1165 </li>
1166 <dt><strong><a name="item_screen_cur">($row, $col) = $term-&gt;screen_cur ([$row, $col])</a></strong>
1167
1168 <dd>
1169 <p>Return the current coordinates of the text cursor position and optionally
1170 set it (which is usually bad as applications don't expect that).</p>
1171 </dd>
1172 </li>
1173 <dt><strong><a name="item_selection_mark">($row, $col) = $term-&gt;selection_mark ([$row, $col])</a></strong>
1174
1175 <dt><strong><a name="item_selection_beg">($row, $col) = $term-&gt;selection_beg ([$row, $col])</a></strong>
1176
1177 <dt><strong><a name="item_selection_end">($row, $col) = $term-&gt;selection_end ([$row, $col])</a></strong>
1178
1179 <dd>
1180 <p>Return the current values of the selection mark, begin or end positions,
1181 and optionally set them to new values.</p>
1182 </dd>
1183 </li>
1184 <dt><strong><a name="item_selection_make">$term-&gt;selection_make ($eventtime[, $rectangular])</a></strong>
1185
1186 <dd>
1187 <p>Tries to make a selection as set by <a href="#item_selection_beg"><code>selection_beg</code></a> and
1188 <a href="#item_selection_end"><code>selection_end</code></a>. If <code>$rectangular</code> is true (default: false), a
1189 rectangular selection will be made. This is the prefered function to make
1190 a selection.</p>
1191 </dd>
1192 </li>
1193 <dt><strong><a name="item_selection_grab">$success = $term-&gt;selection_grab ($eventtime)</a></strong>
1194
1195 <dd>
1196 <p>Try to request the primary selection text from the server (for example, as
1197 set by the next method). No visual feedback will be given. This function
1198 is mostly useful from within <code>on_sel_grab</code> hooks.</p>
1199 </dd>
1200 </li>
1201 <dt><strong>$oldtext = $term-&gt;selection ([$newtext])</strong>
1202
1203 <dd>
1204 <p>Return the current selection text and optionally replace it by <code>$newtext</code>.</p>
1205 </dd>
1206 </li>
1207 <dt><strong><a name="item_overlay_simple">$term-&gt;overlay_simple ($x, $y, $text)</a></strong>
1208
1209 <dd>
1210 <p>Create a simple multi-line overlay box. See the next method for details.</p>
1211 </dd>
1212 </li>
1213 <dt><strong><a name="item_overlay">$term-&gt;overlay ($x, $y, $width, $height[, $rstyle[, $border]])</a></strong>
1214
1215 <dd>
1216 <p>Create a new (empty) overlay at the given position with the given
1217 width/height. <code>$rstyle</code> defines the initial rendition style
1218 (default: <code>OVERLAY_RSTYLE</code>).</p>
1219 </dd>
1220 <dd>
1221 <p>If <code>$border</code> is <code>2</code> (default), then a decorative border will be put
1222 around the box.</p>
1223 </dd>
1224 <dd>
1225 <p>If either <code>$x</code> or <code>$y</code> is negative, then this is counted from the
1226 right/bottom side, respectively.</p>
1227 </dd>
1228 <dd>
1229 <p>This method returns an urxvt::overlay object. The overlay will be visible
1230 as long as the perl object is referenced.</p>
1231 </dd>
1232 <dd>
1233 <p>The methods currently supported on <code>urxvt::overlay</code> objects are:</p>
1234 </dd>
1235 <dl>
1236 <dt><strong><a name="item_set">$overlay-&gt;set ($x, $y, $text, $rend)</a></strong>
1237
1238 <dd>
1239 <p>Similar to <a href="#item_row_t"><code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code></a> and <a href="#item_row_r"><code>$term-&gt;ROW_r</code></a> in that it puts
1240 text in rxvt-unicode's special encoding and an array of rendition values
1241 at a specific position inside the overlay.</p>
1242 </dd>
1243 </li>
1244 <dt><strong><a name="item_hide">$overlay-&gt;hide</a></strong>
1245
1246 <dd>
1247 <p>If visible, hide the overlay, but do not destroy it.</p>
1248 </dd>
1249 </li>
1250 <dt><strong><a name="item_show">$overlay-&gt;show</a></strong>
1251
1252 <dd>
1253 <p>If hidden, display the overlay again.</p>
1254 </dd>
1255 </li>
1256 </dl>
1257 <dt><strong>$popup = $term-&gt;popup ($event)</strong>
1258
1259 <dd>
1260 <p>Creates a new <code>urxvt::popup</code> object that implements a popup menu. The
1261 <code>$event</code> <em>must</em> be the event causing the menu to pop up (a button event,
1262 currently).</p>
1263 </dd>
1264 </li>
1265 <dt><strong><a name="item_strwidth">$cellwidth = $term-&gt;strwidth ($string)</a></strong>
1266
1267 <dd>
1268 <p>Returns the number of screen-cells this string would need. Correctly
1269 accounts for wide and combining characters.</p>
1270 </dd>
1271 </li>
1272 <dt><strong><a name="item_locale_encode">$octets = $term-&gt;locale_encode ($string)</a></strong>
1273
1274 <dd>
1275 <p>Convert the given text string into the corresponding locale encoding.</p>
1276 </dd>
1277 </li>
1278 <dt><strong><a name="item_locale_decode">$string = $term-&gt;locale_decode ($octets)</a></strong>
1279
1280 <dd>
1281 <p>Convert the given locale-encoded octets into a perl string.</p>
1282 </dd>
1283 </li>
1284 <dt><strong><a name="item_scr_xor_span">$term-&gt;scr_xor_span ($beg_row, $beg_col, $end_row, $end_col[, $rstyle])</a></strong>
1285
1286 <dd>
1287 <p>XORs the rendition values in the given span with the provided value
1288 (default: <code>RS_RVid</code>), which <em>MUST NOT</em> contain font styles. Useful in
1289 refresh hooks to provide effects similar to the selection.</p>
1290 </dd>
1291 </li>
1292 <dt><strong><a name="item_scr_xor_rect">$term-&gt;scr_xor_rect ($beg_row, $beg_col, $end_row, $end_col[, $rstyle1[, $rstyle2]])</a></strong>
1293
1294 <dd>
1295 <p>Similar to <a href="#item_scr_xor_span"><code>scr_xor_span</code></a>, but xors a rectangle instead. Trailing
1296 whitespace will additionally be xored with the <code>$rstyle2</code>, which defaults
1297 to <code>RS_RVid | RS_Uline</code>, which removes reverse video again and underlines
1298 it instead. Both styles <em>MUST NOT</em> contain font styles.</p>
1299 </dd>
1300 </li>
1301 <dt><strong><a name="item_scr_bell">$term-&gt;scr_bell</a></strong>
1302
1303 <dd>
1304 <p>Ring the bell!</p>
1305 </dd>
1306 </li>
1307 <dt><strong><a name="item_scr_add_lines">$term-&gt;scr_add_lines ($string)</a></strong>
1308
1309 <dd>
1310 <p>Write the given text string to the screen, as if output by the application
1311 running inside the terminal. It may not contain command sequences (escape
1312 codes), but is free to use line feeds, carriage returns and tabs. The
1313 string is a normal text string, not in locale-dependent encoding.</p>
1314 </dd>
1315 <dd>
1316 <p>Normally its not a good idea to use this function, as programs might be
1317 confused by changes in cursor position or scrolling. Its useful inside a
1318 <code>on_add_lines</code> hook, though.</p>
1319 </dd>
1320 </li>
1321 <dt><strong><a name="item_scr_change_screen">$term-&gt;scr_change_screen ($screen)</a></strong>
1322
1323 <dd>
1324 <p>Switch to given screen - 0 primary, 1 secondary.</p>
1325 </dd>
1326 </li>
1327 <dt><strong><a name="item_cmd_parse">$term-&gt;cmd_parse ($octets)</a></strong>
1328
1329 <dd>
1330 <p>Similar to <a href="#item_scr_add_lines"><code>scr_add_lines</code></a>, but the argument must be in the
1331 locale-specific encoding of the terminal and can contain command sequences
1332 (escape codes) that will be interpreted.</p>
1333 </dd>
1334 </li>
1335 <dt><strong><a name="item_tt_write">$term-&gt;tt_write ($octets)</a></strong>
1336
1337 <dd>
1338 <p>Write the octets given in <code>$data</code> to the tty (i.e. as program input). To
1339 pass characters instead of octets, you should convert your strings first
1340 to the locale-specific encoding using <a href="#item_locale_encode"><code>$term-&gt;locale_encode</code></a>.</p>
1341 </dd>
1342 </li>
1343 <dt><strong><a name="item_pty_ev_events">$old_events = $term-&gt;pty_ev_events ([$new_events])</a></strong>
1344
1345 <dd>
1346 <p>Replaces the event mask of the pty watcher by the given event mask. Can
1347 be used to suppress input and output handling to the pty/tty. See the
1348 description of <a href="#item_events"><code>urxvt::timer-&gt;events</code></a>. Make sure to always restore
1349 the previous value.</p>
1350 </dd>
1351 </li>
1352 <dt><strong><a name="item_pty_fd">$fd = $term-&gt;pty_fd</a></strong>
1353
1354 <dd>
1355 <p>Returns the master file descriptor for the pty in use, or <code>-1</code> if no pty
1356 is used.</p>
1357 </dd>
1358 </li>
1359 <dt><strong><a name="item_parent">$windowid = $term-&gt;parent</a></strong>
1360
1361 <dd>
1362 <p>Return the window id of the toplevel window.</p>
1363 </dd>
1364 </li>
1365 <dt><strong><a name="item_vt">$windowid = $term-&gt;vt</a></strong>
1366
1367 <dd>
1368 <p>Return the window id of the terminal window.</p>
1369 </dd>
1370 </li>
1371 <dt><strong><a name="item_vt_emask_add">$term-&gt;vt_emask_add ($x_event_mask)</a></strong>
1372
1373 <dd>
1374 <p>Adds the specified events to the vt event mask. Useful e.g. when you want
1375 to receive pointer events all the times:</p>
1376 </dd>
1377 <dd>
1378 <pre>
1379 $term-&gt;vt_emask_add (urxvt::PointerMotionMask);</pre>
1380 </dd>
1381 </li>
1382 <dt><strong><a name="item_focus_in">$term-&gt;focus_in</a></strong>
1383
1384 <dt><strong><a name="item_focus_out">$term-&gt;focus_out</a></strong>
1385
1386 <dt><strong><a name="item_key_press">$term-&gt;key_press ($state, $keycode[, $time])</a></strong>
1387
1388 <dt><strong><a name="item_key_release">$term-&gt;key_release ($state, $keycode[, $time])</a></strong>
1389
1390 <dd>
1391 <p>Deliver various fake events to to terminal.</p>
1392 </dd>
1393 </li>
1394 <dt><strong><a name="item_width">$window_width = $term-&gt;width</a></strong>
1395
1396 <dt><strong><a name="item_height">$window_height = $term-&gt;height</a></strong>
1397
1398 <dt><strong><a name="item_fwidth">$font_width = $term-&gt;fwidth</a></strong>
1399
1400 <dt><strong><a name="item_fheight">$font_height = $term-&gt;fheight</a></strong>
1401
1402 <dt><strong><a name="item_fbase">$font_ascent = $term-&gt;fbase</a></strong>
1403
1404 <dt><strong><a name="item_nrow">$terminal_rows = $term-&gt;nrow</a></strong>
1405
1406 <dt><strong><a name="item_ncol">$terminal_columns = $term-&gt;ncol</a></strong>
1407
1408 <dt><strong><a name="item_focus">$has_focus = $term-&gt;focus</a></strong>
1409
1410 <dt><strong><a name="item_mapped">$is_mapped = $term-&gt;mapped</a></strong>
1411
1412 <dt><strong><a name="item_savelines">$max_scrollback = $term-&gt;saveLines</a></strong>
1413
1414 <dt><strong><a name="item_total_rows">$nrow_plus_saveLines = $term-&gt;total_rows</a></strong>
1415
1416 <dt><strong><a name="item_top_row">$topmost_scrollback_row = $term-&gt;top_row</a></strong>
1417
1418 <dd>
1419 <p>Return various integers describing terminal characteristics.</p>
1420 </dd>
1421 </li>
1422 <dt><strong><a name="item_display_id">$x_display = $term-&gt;display_id</a></strong>
1423
1424 <dd>
1425 <p>Return the DISPLAY used by rxvt-unicode.</p>
1426 </dd>
1427 </li>
1428 <dt><strong><a name="item_locale">$lc_ctype = $term-&gt;locale</a></strong>
1429
1430 <dd>
1431 <p>Returns the LC_CTYPE category string used by this rxvt-unicode.</p>
1432 </dd>
1433 </li>
1434 <dt><strong><a name="item_env">$env = $term-&gt;env</a></strong>
1435
1436 <dd>
1437 <p>Returns a copy of the environment in effect for the terminal as a hashref
1438 similar to <code>\%ENV</code>.</p>
1439 </dd>
1440 </li>
1441 <dt><strong><a name="item_envv">@envv = $term-&gt;envv</a></strong>
1442
1443 <dd>
1444 <p>Returns the environment as array of strings of the form <code>VAR=VALUE</code>.</p>
1445 </dd>
1446 </li>
1447 <dt><strong><a name="item_argv">@argv = $term-&gt;argv</a></strong>
1448
1449 <dd>
1450 <p>Return the argument vector as this terminal, similar to @ARGV, but
1451 includes the program name as first element.</p>
1452 </dd>
1453 </li>
1454 <dt><strong><a name="item_modlevel3mask">$modifiermask = $term-&gt;ModLevel3Mask</a></strong>
1455
1456 <dt><strong><a name="item_modmetamask">$modifiermask = $term-&gt;ModMetaMask</a></strong>
1457
1458 <dt><strong><a name="item_modnumlockmask">$modifiermask = $term-&gt;ModNumLockMask</a></strong>
1459
1460 <dd>
1461 <p>Return the modifier masks corresponding to the ``ISO Level 3 Shift'' (often
1462 AltGr), the meta key (often Alt) and the num lock key, if applicable.</p>
1463 </dd>
1464 </li>
1465 <dt><strong><a name="item_current_screen">$screen = $term-&gt;current_screen</a></strong>
1466
1467 <dd>
1468 <p>Returns the currently displayed screen (0 primary, 1 secondary).</p>
1469 </dd>
1470 </li>
1471 <dt><strong><a name="item_hidden_cursor">$cursor_is_hidden = $term-&gt;hidden_cursor</a></strong>
1472
1473 <dd>
1474 <p>Returns wether the cursor is currently hidden or not.</p>
1475 </dd>
1476 </li>
1477 <dt><strong><a name="item_view_start">$view_start = $term-&gt;view_start ([$newvalue])</a></strong>
1478
1479 <dd>
1480 <p>Returns the row number of the topmost displayed line. Maximum value is
1481 <code>0</code>, which displays the normal terminal contents. Lower values scroll
1482 this many lines into the scrollback buffer.</p>
1483 </dd>
1484 </li>
1485 <dt><strong><a name="item_want_refresh">$term-&gt;want_refresh</a></strong>
1486
1487 <dd>
1488 <p>Requests a screen refresh. At the next opportunity, rxvt-unicode will
1489 compare the on-screen display with its stored representation. If they
1490 differ, it redraws the differences.</p>
1491 </dd>
1492 <dd>
1493 <p>Used after changing terminal contents to display them.</p>
1494 </dd>
1495 </li>
1496 <dt><strong><a name="item_row_t">$text = $term-&gt;ROW_t ($row_number[, $new_text[, $start_col]])</a></strong>
1497
1498 <dd>
1499 <p>Returns the text of the entire row with number <code>$row_number</code>. Row <code>0</code>
1500 is the topmost terminal line, row <code>$term-&gt;$ncol-1</code> is the bottommost
1501 terminal line. The scrollback buffer starts at line <code>-1</code> and extends to
1502 line <code>-$term-&gt;nsaved</code>. Nothing will be returned if a nonexistent line
1503 is requested.</p>
1504 </dd>
1505 <dd>
1506 <p>If <code>$new_text</code> is specified, it will replace characters in the current
1507 line, starting at column <code>$start_col</code> (default <code>0</code>), which is useful
1508 to replace only parts of a line. The font index in the rendition will
1509 automatically be updated.</p>
1510 </dd>
1511 <dd>
1512 <p><a href="#item__text"><code>$text</code></a> is in a special encoding: tabs and wide characters that use more
1513 than one cell when displayed are padded with <code>$urxvt::NOCHAR</code> (chr 65535)
1514 characters. Characters with combining characters and other characters that
1515 do not fit into the normal tetx encoding will be replaced with characters
1516 in the private use area.</p>
1517 </dd>
1518 <dd>
1519 <p>You have to obey this encoding when changing text. The advantage is
1520 that <code>substr</code> and similar functions work on screen cells and not on
1521 characters.</p>
1522 </dd>
1523 <dd>
1524 <p>The methods <a href="#item_special_encode"><code>$term-&gt;special_encode</code></a> and <a href="#item_special_decode"><code>$term-&gt;special_decode</code></a>
1525 can be used to convert normal strings into this encoding and vice versa.</p>
1526 </dd>
1527 </li>
1528 <dt><strong><a name="item_row_r">$rend = $term-&gt;ROW_r ($row_number[, $new_rend[, $start_col]])</a></strong>
1529
1530 <dd>
1531 <p>Like <a href="#item_row_t"><code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code></a>, but returns an arrayref with rendition
1532 bitsets. Rendition bitsets contain information about colour, font, font
1533 styles and similar information. See also <a href="#item_row_t"><code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code></a>.</p>
1534 </dd>
1535 <dd>
1536 <p>When setting rendition, the font mask will be ignored.</p>
1537 </dd>
1538 <dd>
1539 <p>See the section on RENDITION, above.</p>
1540 </dd>
1541 </li>
1542 <dt><strong><a name="item_row_l">$length = $term-&gt;ROW_l ($row_number[, $new_length])</a></strong>
1543
1544 <dd>
1545 <p>Returns the number of screen cells that are in use (``the line
1546 length''). Unlike the urxvt core, this returns <a href="#item_ncol"><code>$term-&gt;ncol</code></a> if the
1547 line is joined with the following one.</p>
1548 </dd>
1549 </li>
1550 <dt><strong><a name="item_is_longer">$bool = $term-&gt;is_longer ($row_number)</a></strong>
1551
1552 <dd>
1553 <p>Returns true if the row is part of a multiple-row logical ``line'' (i.e.
1554 joined with the following row), which means all characters are in use
1555 and it is continued on the next row (and possibly a continuation of the
1556 previous row(s)).</p>
1557 </dd>
1558 </li>
1559 <dt><strong><a name="item_line">$line = $term-&gt;line ($row_number)</a></strong>
1560
1561 <dd>
1562 <p>Create and return a new <code>urxvt::line</code> object that stores information
1563 about the logical line that row <code>$row_number</code> is part of. It supports the
1564 following methods:</p>
1565 </dd>
1566 <dl>
1567 <dt><strong><a name="item_t">$text = $line-&gt;t ([$new_text])</a></strong>
1568
1569 <dd>
1570 <p>Returns or replaces the full text of the line, similar to <a href="#item_row_t"><code>ROW_t</code></a></p>
1571 </dd>
1572 </li>
1573 <dt><strong><a name="item_r">$rend = $line-&gt;r ([$new_rend])</a></strong>
1574
1575 <dd>
1576 <p>Returns or replaces the full rendition array of the line, similar to <a href="#item_row_r"><code>ROW_r</code></a></p>
1577 </dd>
1578 </li>
1579 <dt><strong><a name="item_l">$length = $line-&gt;l</a></strong>
1580
1581 <dd>
1582 <p>Returns the length of the line in cells, similar to <a href="#item_row_l"><code>ROW_l</code></a>.</p>
1583 </dd>
1584 </li>
1585 <dt><strong><a name="item_beg">$rownum = $line-&gt;beg</a></strong>
1586
1587 <dt><strong><a name="item_end">$rownum = $line-&gt;end</a></strong>
1588
1589 <dd>
1590 <p>Return the row number of the first/last row of the line, respectively.</p>
1591 </dd>
1592 </li>
1593 <dt><strong><a name="item_offset_of">$offset = $line-&gt;offset_of ($row, $col)</a></strong>
1594
1595 <dd>
1596 <p>Returns the character offset of the given row|col pair within the logical
1597 line. Works for rows outside the line, too, and returns corresponding
1598 offsets outside the string.</p>
1599 </dd>
1600 </li>
1601 <dt><strong><a name="item_coord_of">($row, $col) = $line-&gt;coord_of ($offset)</a></strong>
1602
1603 <dd>
1604 <p>Translates a string offset into terminal coordinates again.</p>
1605 </dd>
1606 </li>
1607 </dl>
1608 <dt><strong><a name="item_special_encode">$text = $term-&gt;special_encode $string</a></strong>
1609
1610 <dd>
1611 <p>Converts a perl string into the special encoding used by rxvt-unicode,
1612 where one character corresponds to one screen cell. See
1613 <a href="#item_row_t"><code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code></a> for details.</p>
1614 </dd>
1615 </li>
1616 <dt><strong><a name="item_special_decode">$string = $term-&gt;special_decode $text</a></strong>
1617
1618 <dd>
1619 <p>Converts rxvt-unicodes text reprsentation into a perl string. See
1620 <a href="#item_row_t"><code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code></a> for details.</p>
1621 </dd>
1622 </li>
1623 <dt><strong><a name="item_grab_button">$success = $term-&gt;grab_button ($button, $modifiermask[, $window = $term-&gt;vt])</a></strong>
1624
1625 <dt><strong><a name="item_ungrab_button">$term-&gt;ungrab_button ($button, $modifiermask[, $window = $term-&gt;vt])</a></strong>
1626
1627 <dd>
1628 <p>Register/unregister a synchronous button grab. See the XGrabButton
1629 manpage.</p>
1630 </dd>
1631 </li>
1632 <dt><strong><a name="item_grab">$success = $term-&gt;grab ($eventtime[, $sync])</a></strong>
1633
1634 <dd>
1635 <p>Calls XGrabPointer and XGrabKeyboard in asynchronous (default) or
1636 synchronous (<code>$sync</code> is true). Also remembers the grab timestampe.</p>
1637 </dd>
1638 </li>
1639 <dt><strong><a name="item_allow_events_async">$term-&gt;allow_events_async</a></strong>
1640
1641 <dd>
1642 <p>Calls XAllowEvents with AsyncBoth for the most recent grab.</p>
1643 </dd>
1644 </li>
1645 <dt><strong><a name="item_allow_events_sync">$term-&gt;allow_events_sync</a></strong>
1646
1647 <dd>
1648 <p>Calls XAllowEvents with SyncBoth for the most recent grab.</p>
1649 </dd>
1650 </li>
1651 <dt><strong><a name="item_allow_events_replay">$term-&gt;allow_events_replay</a></strong>
1652
1653 <dd>
1654 <p>Calls XAllowEvents with both ReplayPointer and ReplayKeyboard for the most
1655 recent grab.</p>
1656 </dd>
1657 </li>
1658 <dt><strong><a name="item_ungrab">$term-&gt;ungrab</a></strong>
1659
1660 <dd>
1661 <p>Calls XUngrab for the most recent grab. Is called automatically on
1662 evaluation errors, as it is better to lose the grab in the error case as
1663 the session.</p>
1664 </dd>
1665 </li>
1666 <dt><strong><a name="item_xinternatom">$atom = $term-&gt;XInternAtom ($atom_name[, $only_if_exists])</a></strong>
1667
1668 <dt><strong><a name="item_xgetatomname">$atom_name = $term-&gt;XGetAtomName ($atom)</a></strong>
1669
1670 <dt><strong><a name="item_xlistproperties">@atoms = $term-&gt;XListProperties ($window)</a></strong>
1671
1672 <dt><strong><a name="item_xgetwindowproperty">($type,$format,$octets) = $term-&gt;XGetWindowProperty ($window, $property)</a></strong>
1673
1674 <dt><strong><a name="item_xchangewindowproperty">$term-&gt;XChangeWindowProperty ($window, $property, $type, $format, $octets)</a></strong>
1675
1676 <dt><strong><a name="item_xdeleteproperty">$term-&gt;XDeleteProperty ($window, $property)</a></strong>
1677
1678 <dt><strong><a name="item_defaultrootwindow">$window = $term-&gt;DefaultRootWindow</a></strong>
1679
1680 <dt><strong><a name="item_xreparentwindow">$term-&gt;XReparentWindow ($window, $parent, [$x, $y])</a></strong>
1681
1682 <dt><strong><a name="item_xmapwindow">$term-&gt;XMapWindow ($window)</a></strong>
1683
1684 <dt><strong><a name="item_xunmapwindow">$term-&gt;XUnmapWindow ($window)</a></strong>
1685
1686 <dt><strong><a name="item_xmoveresizewindow">$term-&gt;XMoveResizeWindow ($window, $x, $y, $width, $height)</a></strong>
1687
1688 <dt><strong><a name="item_xtranslatecoordinates">($x, $y, $child_window) = $term-&gt;XTranslateCoordinates ($src, $dst, $x, $y)</a></strong>
1689
1690 <dt><strong><a name="item_xchangeinput">$term-&gt;XChangeInput ($window, $add_events[, $del_events])</a></strong>
1691
1692 <dd>
1693 <p>Various X or X-related functions. The <a href="#item__term"><code>$term</code></a> object only serves as
1694 the source of the display, otherwise those functions map more-or-less
1695 directory onto the X functions of the same name.</p>
1696 </dd>
1697 </li>
1698 </dl>
1699 <p>
1700 </p>
1701 <h2><a name="the_urxvt__popup_class">The <code>urxvt::popup</code> Class</a></h2>
1702 <dl>
1703 <dt><strong><a name="item_add_title">$popup-&gt;add_title ($title)</a></strong>
1704
1705 <dd>
1706 <p>Adds a non-clickable title to the popup.</p>
1707 </dd>
1708 </li>
1709 <dt><strong><a name="item_add_separator">$popup-&gt;add_separator ([$sepchr])</a></strong>
1710
1711 <dd>
1712 <p>Creates a separator, optionally using the character given as <code>$sepchr</code>.</p>
1713 </dd>
1714 </li>
1715 <dt><strong><a name="item_add_button">$popup-&gt;add_button ($text, $cb)</a></strong>
1716
1717 <dd>
1718 <p>Adds a clickable button to the popup. <code>$cb</code> is called whenever it is
1719 selected.</p>
1720 </dd>
1721 </li>
1722 <dt><strong><a name="item_add_toggle">$popup-&gt;add_toggle ($text, $initial_value, $cb)</a></strong>
1723
1724 <dd>
1725 <p>Adds a toggle/checkbox item to the popup. The callback gets called
1726 whenever it gets toggled, with a boolean indicating its new value as its
1727 first argument.</p>
1728 </dd>
1729 </li>
1730 <dt><strong>$popup-&gt;show</strong>
1731
1732 <dd>
1733 <p>Displays the popup (which is initially hidden).</p>
1734 </dd>
1735 </li>
1736 </dl>
1737 <p>
1738 </p>
1739 <h2><a name="the_urxvt__timer_class">The <code>urxvt::timer</code> Class</a></h2>
1740 <p>This class implements timer watchers/events. Time is represented as a
1741 fractional number of seconds since the epoch. Example:</p>
1742 <pre>
1743 $term-&gt;{overlay} = $term-&gt;overlay (-1, 0, 8, 1, urxvt::OVERLAY_RSTYLE, 0);
1744 $term-&gt;{timer} = urxvt::timer
1745 -&gt;new
1746 -&gt;interval (1)
1747 -&gt;cb (sub {
1748 $term-&gt;{overlay}-&gt;set (0, 0,
1749 sprintf &quot;%2d:%02d:%02d&quot;, (localtime urxvt::NOW)[2,1,0]);
1750 });</pre>
1751 <dl>
1752 <dt><strong><a name="item__timer">$timer = new urxvt::timer</a></strong>
1753
1754 <dd>
1755 <p>Create a new timer object in started state. It is scheduled to fire
1756 immediately.</p>
1757 </dd>
1758 </li>
1759 <dt><strong><a name="item_cb">$timer = $timer-&gt;cb (sub { my ($timer) = @_; ... })</a></strong>
1760
1761 <dd>
1762 <p>Set the callback to be called when the timer triggers.</p>
1763 </dd>
1764 </li>
1765 <dt><strong><a name="item_at">$tstamp = $timer-&gt;at</a></strong>
1766
1767 <dd>
1768 <p>Return the time this watcher will fire next.</p>
1769 </dd>
1770 </li>
1771 <dt><strong>$timer = $timer-&gt;set ($tstamp)</strong>
1772
1773 <dd>
1774 <p>Set the time the event is generated to $tstamp.</p>
1775 </dd>
1776 </li>
1777 <dt><strong><a name="item_interval">$timer = $timer-&gt;interval ($interval)</a></strong>
1778
1779 <dd>
1780 <p>Normally (and when <code>$interval</code> is <code>0</code>), the timer will automatically
1781 stop after it has fired once. If <code>$interval</code> is non-zero, then the timer
1782 is automatically rescheduled at the given intervals.</p>
1783 </dd>
1784 </li>
1785 <dt><strong><a name="item_start">$timer = $timer-&gt;start</a></strong>
1786
1787 <dd>
1788 <p>Start the timer.</p>
1789 </dd>
1790 </li>
1791 <dt><strong>$timer = $timer-&gt;start ($tstamp)</strong>
1792
1793 <dd>
1794 <p>Set the event trigger time to <code>$tstamp</code> and start the timer.</p>
1795 </dd>
1796 </li>
1797 <dt><strong><a name="item_after">$timer = $timer-&gt;after ($delay)</a></strong>
1798
1799 <dd>
1800 <p>Like <a href="#item_start"><code>start</code></a>, but sets the expiry timer to c&lt;urxvt::NOW + $delay&gt;.</p>
1801 </dd>
1802 </li>
1803 <dt><strong><a name="item_stop">$timer = $timer-&gt;stop</a></strong>
1804
1805 <dd>
1806 <p>Stop the timer.</p>
1807 </dd>
1808 </li>
1809 </dl>
1810 <p>
1811 </p>
1812 <h2><a name="the_urxvt__iow_class">The <code>urxvt::iow</code> Class</a></h2>
1813 <p>This class implements io watchers/events. Example:</p>
1814 <pre>
1815 $term-&gt;{socket} = ...
1816 $term-&gt;{iow} = urxvt::iow
1817 -&gt;new
1818 -&gt;fd (fileno $term-&gt;{socket})
1819 -&gt;events (urxvt::EVENT_READ)
1820 -&gt;start
1821 -&gt;cb (sub {
1822 my ($iow, $revents) = @_;
1823 # $revents must be 1 here, no need to check
1824 sysread $term-&gt;{socket}, my $buf, 8192
1825 or end-of-file;
1826 });</pre>
1827 <dl>
1828 <dt><strong><a name="item__iow">$iow = new urxvt::iow</a></strong>
1829
1830 <dd>
1831 <p>Create a new io watcher object in stopped state.</p>
1832 </dd>
1833 </li>
1834 <dt><strong>$iow = $iow-&gt;cb (sub { my ($iow, $reventmask) = @_; ... })</strong>
1835
1836 <dd>
1837 <p>Set the callback to be called when io events are triggered. <code>$reventmask</code>
1838 is a bitset as described in the <a href="#item_events"><code>events</code></a> method.</p>
1839 </dd>
1840 </li>
1841 <dt><strong><a name="item_fd">$iow = $iow-&gt;fd ($fd)</a></strong>
1842
1843 <dd>
1844 <p>Set the filedescriptor (not handle) to watch.</p>
1845 </dd>
1846 </li>
1847 <dt><strong><a name="item_events">$iow = $iow-&gt;events ($eventmask)</a></strong>
1848
1849 <dd>
1850 <p>Set the event mask to watch. The only allowed values are
1851 <code>urxvt::EVENT_READ</code> and <code>urxvt::EVENT_WRITE</code>, which might be ORed
1852 together, or <code>urxvt::EVENT_NONE</code>.</p>
1853 </dd>
1854 </li>
1855 <dt><strong>$iow = $iow-&gt;start</strong>
1856
1857 <dd>
1858 <p>Start watching for requested events on the given handle.</p>
1859 </dd>
1860 </li>
1861 <dt><strong>$iow = $iow-&gt;stop</strong>
1862
1863 <dd>
1864 <p>Stop watching for events on the given filehandle.</p>
1865 </dd>
1866 </li>
1867 </dl>
1868 <p>
1869 </p>
1870 <h2><a name="the_urxvt__iw_class">The <code>urxvt::iw</code> Class</a></h2>
1871 <p>This class implements idle watchers, that get called automatically when
1872 the process is idle. They should return as fast as possible, after doing
1873 some useful work.</p>
1874 <dl>
1875 <dt><strong><a name="item__iw">$iw = new urxvt::iw</a></strong>
1876
1877 <dd>
1878 <p>Create a new idle watcher object in stopped state.</p>
1879 </dd>
1880 </li>
1881 <dt><strong>$iw = $iw-&gt;cb (sub { my ($iw) = @_; ... })</strong>
1882
1883 <dd>
1884 <p>Set the callback to be called when the watcher triggers.</p>
1885 </dd>
1886 </li>
1887 <dt><strong>$timer = $timer-&gt;start</strong>
1888
1889 <dd>
1890 <p>Start the watcher.</p>
1891 </dd>
1892 </li>
1893 <dt><strong>$timer = $timer-&gt;stop</strong>
1894
1895 <dd>
1896 <p>Stop the watcher.</p>
1897 </dd>
1898 </li>
1899 </dl>
1900 <p>
1901 </p>
1902 <h2><a name="the_urxvt__pw_class">The <code>urxvt::pw</code> Class</a></h2>
1903 <p>This class implements process watchers. They create an event whenever a
1904 process exits, after which they stop automatically.</p>
1905 <pre>
1906 my $pid = fork;
1907 ...
1908 $term-&gt;{pw} = urxvt::pw
1909 -&gt;new
1910 -&gt;start ($pid)
1911 -&gt;cb (sub {
1912 my ($pw, $exit_status) = @_;
1913 ...
1914 });</pre>
1915 <dl>
1916 <dt><strong><a name="item__pw">$pw = new urxvt::pw</a></strong>
1917
1918 <dd>
1919 <p>Create a new process watcher in stopped state.</p>
1920 </dd>
1921 </li>
1922 <dt><strong>$pw = $pw-&gt;cb (sub { my ($pw, $exit_status) = @_; ... })</strong>
1923
1924 <dd>
1925 <p>Set the callback to be called when the timer triggers.</p>
1926 </dd>
1927 </li>
1928 <dt><strong>$pw = $timer-&gt;start ($pid)</strong>
1929
1930 <dd>
1931 <p>Tells the wqtcher to start watching for process <code>$pid</code>.</p>
1932 </dd>
1933 </li>
1934 <dt><strong>$pw = $pw-&gt;stop</strong>
1935
1936 <dd>
1937 <p>Stop the watcher.</p>
1938 </dd>
1939 </li>
1940 </dl>
1941 <p>
1942 </p>
1943 <hr />
1944 <h1><a name="environment">ENVIRONMENT</a></h1>
1945 <p>
1946 </p>
1947 <h2><a name="urxvt_perl_verbosity">URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY</a></h2>
1948 <p>This variable controls the verbosity level of the perl extension. Higher
1949 numbers indicate more verbose output.</p>
1950 <dl>
1951 <dt><strong><a name="item__3d_3d_0__2d_fatal_messages">== 0 - fatal messages</a></strong>
1952
1953 <dt><strong><a name="item__3e_3d_3__2d_script_loading_and_management">&gt;= 3 - script loading and management</a></strong>
1954
1955 <dt><strong><a name="item__3e_3d10__2d_all_called_hooks">&gt;=10 - all called hooks</a></strong>
1956
1957 <dt><strong><a name="item__3e_3d11__2d_hook_reutrn_values">&gt;=11 - hook reutrn values</a></strong>
1958
1959 </dl>
1960 <p>
1961 </p>
1962 <hr />
1963 <h1><a name="author">AUTHOR</a></h1>
1964 <pre>
1965 Marc Lehmann &lt;pcg@goof.com&gt;
1966 <a href="http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode">http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode</a></pre>
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