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17 <ul><li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
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>
22 <ul><li><a href="#General_API_Considerations">General API Considerations</a></li>
23 <li><a href="#Extension_Objects">Extension Objects</a></li>
24 <li><a href="#Hooks">Hooks</a></li>
25 <li><a href="#Variables_in_the_code_urxvt_code_Pac">Variables in the <code>urxvt</code> Package</a></li>
26 <li><a href="#Functions_in_the_code_urxvt_code_Pac">Functions in the <code>urxvt</code> Package</a></li>
27 <li><a href="#RENDITION">RENDITION</a></li>
28 <li><a href="#The_code_urxvt_anyevent_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::anyevent</code> Class</a></li>
29 <li><a href="#The_code_urxvt_term_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::term</code> Class</a></li>
30 <li><a href="#The_code_urxvt_popup_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::popup</code> Class</a></li>
31 <li><a href="#The_code_urxvt_timer_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::timer</code> Class</a></li>
32 <li><a href="#The_code_urxvt_iow_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::iow</code> Class</a></li>
33 <li><a href="#The_code_urxvt_iw_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::iw</code> Class</a></li>
34 <li><a href="#The_code_urxvt_pw_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::pw</code> Class</a></li>
35 </ul>
36 </li>
37 <li><a href="#ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a>
38 <ul><li><a href="#URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY">URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY</a></li>
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46 <h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
47 <div id="NAME_CONTENT">
48 <p>rxvtperl - rxvt-unicode's embedded perl interpreter</p>
49
50 </div>
51 <h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
52 <div id="SYNOPSIS_CONTENT">
53 <pre> # create a file grab_test in $HOME:
54
55 sub on_sel_grab {
56 warn &quot;you selected &quot;, $_[0]-&gt;selection;
57 ()
58 }
59
60 # start a rxvt using it:
61
62 rxvt --perl-lib $HOME -pe grab_test
63
64 </pre>
65
66 </div>
67 <h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
68 <div id="DESCRIPTION_CONTENT">
69 <p>Every time a terminal object gets created, extension scripts specified via
70 the <code>perl</code> resource are loaded and associated with it.</p>
71 <p>Scripts are compiled in a 'use strict' and 'use utf8' environment, and
72 thus must be encoded as UTF-8.</p>
73 <p>Each script will only ever be loaded once, even in rxvtd, where
74 scripts will be shared (but not enabled) for all terminals.</p>
75 <p>You can disable the embedded perl interpreter by setting both &quot;perl-ext&quot;
76 and &quot;perl-ext-common&quot; resources to the empty string.</p>
77
78 </div>
79 <h1 id="PREPACKAGED_EXTENSIONS">PREPACKAGED EXTENSIONS</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
80 <div id="PREPACKAGED_EXTENSIONS_CONTENT">
81 <p>This section describes the extensions delivered with this release. You can
82 find them in <cite>/opt/rxvt/lib/urxvt/perl/</cite>.</p>
83 <p>You can activate them like this:</p>
84 <pre> rxvt -pe &lt;extensionname&gt;
85
86 </pre>
87 <p>Or by adding them to the resource for extensions loaded by default:</p>
88 <pre> URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,automove-background,selection-autotransform
89
90 </pre>
91 <dl>
92 <dt>selection (enabled by default)</dt>
93 <dd>
94 <p>(More) intelligent selection. This extension tries to be more intelligent
95 when the user extends selections (double-click and further clicks). Right
96 now, it tries to select words, urls and complete shell-quoted
97 arguments, which is very convenient, too, if your <cite>ls</cite> supports
98 <code>--quoting-style=shell</code>.</p>
99 <p>A double-click usually selects the word under the cursor, further clicks
100 will enlarge the selection.</p>
101 <p>The selection works by trying to match a number of regexes and displaying
102 them in increasing order of length. You can add your own regexes by
103 specifying resources of the form:</p>
104 <pre> URxvt.selection.pattern-0: perl-regex
105 URxvt.selection.pattern-1: perl-regex
106 ...
107
108 </pre>
109 <p>The index number (0, 1...) must not have any holes, and each regex must
110 contain at least one pair of capturing parentheses, which will be used for
111 the match. For example, the following adds a regex that matches everything
112 between two vertical bars:</p>
113 <pre> URxvt.selection.pattern-0: \\|([^|]+)\\|
114
115 </pre>
116 <p>Another example: Programs I use often output &quot;absolute path: &quot; at the
117 beginning of a line when they process multiple files. The following
118 pattern matches the filename (note, there is a single space at the very
119 end):</p>
120 <pre> URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ^(/[^:]+):\
121
122 </pre>
123 <p>You can look at the source of the selection extension to see more
124 interesting uses, such as parsing a line from beginning to end.</p>
125 <p>This extension also offers following bindable keyboard commands:</p>
126 <p>
127 <dl>
128 <dt>rot13</dt>
129 <dd>
130 <p>Rot-13 the selection when activated. Used via keyboard trigger:</p>
131 <pre> URxvt.keysym.C-M-r: perl:selection:rot13
132
133 </pre>
134 </dd>
135 </dl>
136 </p>
137 </dd>
138 <dt>option-popup (enabled by default)</dt>
139 <dd>
140 <p>Binds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button2 that lets you toggle (some) options at
141 runtime.</p>
142 <p>Other extensions can extend this popup menu by pushing a code reference
143 onto <code>@{ $term-</code>{option_popup_hook} }&gt;, which gets called whenever the
144 popup is being displayed.</p>
145 <p>It's sole argument is the popup menu, which can be modified. It should
146 either return nothing or a string, the initial boolean value and a code
147 reference. The string will be used as button text and the code reference
148 will be called when the toggle changes, with the new boolean value as
149 first argument.</p>
150 <p>The following will add an entry <code>myoption</code> that changes
151 <code>$self-</code>{myoption}&gt;:</p>
152 <pre> push @{ $self-&gt;{term}{option_popup_hook} }, sub {
153 (&quot;my option&quot; =&gt; $myoption, sub { $self-&gt;{myoption} = $_[0] })
154 };
155
156 </pre>
157 </dd>
158 <dt>selection-popup (enabled by default)</dt>
159 <dd>
160 <p>Binds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button3 that lets you convert the selection
161 text into various other formats/action (such as uri unescaping, perl
162 evaluation, web-browser starting etc.), depending on content.</p>
163 <p>Other extensions can extend this popup menu by pushing a code reference
164 onto <code>@{ $term-</code>{selection_popup_hook} }&gt;, which gets called whenever the
165 popup is being displayed.</p>
166 <p>It's sole argument is the popup menu, which can be modified. The selection
167 is in <code>$_</code>, which can be used to decide whether to add something or not.
168 It should either return nothing or a string and a code reference. The
169 string will be used as button text and the code reference will be called
170 when the button gets activated and should transform <code>$_</code>.</p>
171 <p>The following will add an entry <code>a to b</code> that transforms all <code>a</code>s in
172 the selection to <code>b</code>s, but only if the selection currently contains any
173 <code>a</code>s:</p>
174 <pre> push @{ $self-&gt;{term}{selection_popup_hook} }, sub {
175 /a/ ? (&quot;a to be&quot; =&gt; sub { s/a/b/g }
176 : ()
177 };
178
179 </pre>
180 </dd>
181 <dt>searchable-scrollback&lt;hotkey&gt; (enabled by default)</dt>
182 <dd>
183 <p>Adds regex search functionality to the scrollback buffer, triggered
184 by a hotkey (default: <code>M-s</code>). While in search mode, normal terminal
185 input/output is suspended and a regex is displayed at the bottom of the
186 screen.</p>
187 <p>Inputting characters appends them to the regex and continues incremental
188 search. <code>BackSpace</code> removes a character from the regex, <code>Up</code> and <code>Down</code>
189 search upwards/downwards in the scrollback buffer, <code>End</code> jumps to the
190 bottom. <code>Escape</code> leaves search mode and returns to the point where search
191 was started, while <code>Enter</code> or <code>Return</code> stay at the current position and
192 additionally stores the first match in the current line into the primary
193 selection.</p>
194 <p>The regex defaults to &quot;(?i)&quot;, resulting in a case-insensitive search. To
195 get a case-sensitive search you can delete this prefix using <code>BackSpace</code>
196 or simply use an uppercase character which removes the &quot;(?i)&quot; prefix.</p>
197 <p>See <cite>perlre</cite> for more info about perl regular expression syntax.</p>
198 </dd>
199 <dt>readline (enabled by default)</dt>
200 <dd>
201 <p>A support package that tries to make editing with readline easier. At
202 the moment, it reacts to clicking shift-left mouse button by trying to
203 move the text cursor to this position. It does so by generating as many
204 cursor-left or cursor-right keypresses as required (the this only works
205 for programs that correctly support wide characters).</p>
206 <p>To avoid too many false positives, this is only done when:</p>
207 <p>
208 <dl>
209 <dt>- the tty is in ICANON state.</dt>
210 <dt>- the text cursor is visible.</dt>
211 <dt>- the primary screen is currently being displayed.</dt>
212 <dt>- the mouse is on the same (multi-row-) line as the text cursor.</dt>
213 </dl>
214 </p>
215 <p>The normal selection mechanism isn't disabled, so quick successive clicks
216 might interfere with selection creation in harmless ways.</p>
217 </dd>
218 <dt>selection-autotransform</dt>
219 <dd>
220 <p>This selection allows you to do automatic transforms on a selection
221 whenever a selection is made.</p>
222 <p>It works by specifying perl snippets (most useful is a single <code>s///</code>
223 operator) that modify <code>$_</code> as resources:</p>
224 <pre> URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: transform
225 URxvt.selection-autotransform.1: transform
226 ...
227
228 </pre>
229 <p>For example, the following will transform selections of the form
230 <code>filename:number</code>, often seen in compiler messages, into <code>vi +$filename
231 $word</code>:</p>
232 <pre> URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^([^:[:space:]]+):(\\d+):?$/vi +$2 \\Q$1\\E\\x0d/
233
234 </pre>
235 <p>And this example matches the same,but replaces it with vi-commands you can
236 paste directly into your (vi :) editor:</p>
237 <pre> URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^([^:[:space:]]+(\\d+):?$/:e \\Q$1\\E\\x0d:$2\\x0d/
238
239 </pre>
240 <p>Of course, this can be modified to suit your needs and your editor :)</p>
241 <p>To expand the example above to typical perl error messages (&quot;XXX at
242 FILENAME line YYY.&quot;), you need a slightly more elaborate solution:</p>
243 <pre> URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ( at .*? line \\d+[,.])
244 URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^ at (.*?) line (\\d+)[,.]$/:e \\Q$1\E\\x0d:$2\\x0d/
245
246 </pre>
247 <p>The first line tells the selection code to treat the unchanging part of
248 every error message as a selection pattern, and the second line transforms
249 the message into vi commands to load the file.</p>
250 </dd>
251 <dt>tabbed</dt>
252 <dd>
253 <p>This transforms the terminal into a tabbar with additional terminals, that
254 is, it implements what is commonly referred to as &quot;tabbed terminal&quot;. The topmost line
255 displays a &quot;[NEW]&quot; button, which, when clicked, will add a new tab, followed by one
256 button per tab.</p>
257 <p>Clicking a button will activate that tab. Pressing <strong>Shift-Left</strong> and
258 <strong>Shift-Right</strong> will switch to the tab left or right of the current one,
259 while <strong>Shift-Down</strong> creates a new tab.</p>
260 <p>The tabbar itself can be configured similarly to a normal terminal, but
261 with a resource class of <code>URxvt.tabbed</code>. In addition, it supports the
262 following four resources (shown with defaults):</p>
263 <pre> URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-fg: &lt;colour-index, default 3&gt;
264 URxvt.tabbed.tabbar-bg: &lt;colour-index, default 0&gt;
265 URxvt.tabbed.tab-fg: &lt;colour-index, default 0&gt;
266 URxvt.tabbed.tab-bg: &lt;colour-index, default 1&gt;
267
268 </pre>
269 <p>See <i>COLOR AND GRAPHICS</i> in the rxvt(1) manpage for valid
270 indices.</p>
271 </dd>
272 <dt>matcher</dt>
273 <dd>
274 <p>Uses per-line display filtering (<code>on_line_update</code>) to underline text
275 matching a certain pattern and make it clickable. When clicked with the
276 mouse button specified in the <code>matcher.button</code> resource (default 2, or
277 middle), the program specified in the <code>matcher.launcher</code> resource
278 (default, the <code>urlLauncher</code> resource, <code>sensible-browser</code>) will be started
279 with the matched text as first argument. The default configuration is
280 suitable for matching URLs and launching a web browser, like the
281 former &quot;mark-urls&quot; extension.</p>
282 <p>The default pattern to match URLs can be overridden with the
283 <code>matcher.pattern.0</code> resource, and additional patterns can be specified
284 with numbered patterns, in a manner similar to the &quot;selection&quot; extension.
285 The launcher can also be overridden on a per-pattern basis.</p>
286 <p>It is possible to activate the most recently seen match from the keyboard.
287 Simply bind a keysym to &quot;perl:matcher&quot; as seen in the example below.</p>
288 <p>Example configuration:</p>
289 <pre> URxvt.perl-ext: default,matcher
290 URxvt.urlLauncher: sensible-browser
291 URxvt.keysym.C-Delete: perl:matcher
292 URxvt.matcher.button: 1
293 URxvt.matcher.pattern.1: \\bwww\\.[\\w-]+\\.[\\w./?&amp;@#-]*[\\w/-]
294 URxvt.matcher.pattern.2: \\B(/\\S+?):(\\d+)(?=:|$)
295 URxvt.matcher.launcher.2: gvim +$2 $1
296
297 </pre>
298 </dd>
299 <dt>xim-onthespot</dt>
300 <dd>
301 <p>This (experimental) perl extension implements OnTheSpot editing. It does
302 not work perfectly, and some input methods don't seem to work well with
303 OnTheSpot editing in general, but it seems to work at leats for SCIM and
304 kinput2.</p>
305 <p>You enable it by specifying this extension and a preedit style of
306 <code>OnTheSpot</code>, i.e.:</p>
307 <pre> rxvt -pt OnTheSpot -pe xim-onthespot
308
309 </pre>
310 </dd>
311 <dt>kuake&lt;hotkey&gt;</dt>
312 <dd>
313 <p>A very primitive quake-console-like extension. It was inspired by a
314 description of how the programs <code>kuake</code> and <code>yakuake</code> work: Whenever the
315 user presses a global accelerator key (by default <code>F10</code>), the terminal
316 will show or hide itself. Another press of the accelerator key will hide
317 or show it again.</p>
318 <p>Initially, the window will not be shown when using this extension.</p>
319 <p>This is useful if you need a single terminal thats not using any desktop
320 space most of the time but is quickly available at the press of a key.</p>
321 <p>The accelerator key is grabbed regardless of any modifiers, so this
322 extension will actually grab a physical key just for this function.</p>
323 <p>If you want a quake-like animation, tell your window manager to do so
324 (fvwm can do it).</p>
325 </dd>
326 <dt>automove-background</dt>
327 <dd>
328 <p>This is basically a very small extension that dynamically changes the
329 background pixmap offset to the window position, in effect creating the
330 same effect as pseudo transparency with a custom pixmap. No scaling is
331 supported in this mode. Example:</p>
332 <pre> rxvt -pixmap background.xpm -pe automove-background
333
334 </pre>
335 <p><a href="http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Background_Rotation/Extensions">http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Background_Rotation/Extensions</a>
336 shows how this extension can be used to implement an automatically blurred
337 transparent background.</p>
338 </dd>
339 <dt>block-graphics-to-ascii</dt>
340 <dd>
341 <p>A not very useful example of filtering all text output to the terminal
342 by replacing all line-drawing characters (U+2500 .. U+259F) by a
343 similar-looking ascii character.</p>
344 </dd>
345 <dt>digital-clock</dt>
346 <dd>
347 <p>Displays a digital clock using the built-in overlay.</p>
348 </dd>
349 <dt>remote-clipboard</dt>
350 <dd>
351 <p>Somewhat of a misnomer, this extension adds two menu entries to the
352 selection popup that allows one ti run external commands to store the
353 selection somewhere and fetch it again.</p>
354 <p>We use it to implement a &quot;distributed selection mechanism&quot;, which just
355 means that one command uploads the file to a remote server, and another
356 reads it.</p>
357 <p>The commands can be set using the <code>URxvt.remote-selection.store</code> and
358 <code>URxvt.remote-selection.fetch</code> resources. The first should read the
359 selection to store from STDIN (always in UTF-8), the second should provide
360 the selection data on STDOUT (also in UTF-8).</p>
361 <p>The defaults (which are likely useless to you) use rsh and cat:</p>
362 <pre> URxvt.remote-selection.store: rsh ruth 'cat &gt;/tmp/distributed-selection'
363 URxvt.remote-selection.fetch: rsh ruth 'cat /tmp/distributed-selection'
364
365 </pre>
366 </dd>
367 <dt>selection-pastebin</dt>
368 <dd>
369 <p>This is a little rarely useful extension that Uploads the selection as
370 textfile to a remote site (or does other things). (The implementation is
371 not currently secure for use in a multiuser environment as it writes to
372 <cite>/tmp</cite> directly.).</p>
373 <p>It listens to the <code>selection-pastebin:remote-pastebin</code> keyboard command,
374 i.e.</p>
375 <pre> URxvt.keysym.C-M-e: perl:selection-pastebin:remote-pastebin
376
377 </pre>
378 <p>Pressing this combination runs a command with <code>%</code> replaced by the name of
379 the textfile. This command can be set via a resource:</p>
380 <pre> URxvt.selection-pastebin.cmd: rsync -apP % ruth:/var/www/www.ta-sa.org/files/txt/.
381
382 </pre>
383 <p>And the default is likely not useful to anybody but the few people around
384 here :)</p>
385 <p>The name of the textfile is the hex encoded md5 sum of the selection, so
386 the same content should lead to the same filename.</p>
387 <p>After a successful upload the selection will be replaced by the text given
388 in the <code>selection-pastebin-url</code> resource (again, the % is the placeholder
389 for the filename):</p>
390 <pre> URxvt.selection-pastebin.url: http://www.ta-sa.org/files/txt/%
391
392 </pre>
393 <p><i>Note to xrdb users:</i> xrdb uses the C preprocessor, which might interpret
394 the double <code>/</code> characters as comment start. Use <code>\057\057</code> instead,
395 which works regardless of wether xrdb is used to parse the resource file
396 or not.</p>
397 </dd>
398 <dt>example-refresh-hooks</dt>
399 <dd>
400 <p>Displays a very simple digital clock in the upper right corner of the
401 window. Illustrates overwriting the refresh callbacks to create your own
402 overlays or changes.</p>
403 </dd>
404 </dl>
405
406 </div>
407 <h1 id="API_DOCUMENTATION">API DOCUMENTATION</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
408 <div id="API_DOCUMENTATION_CONTENT">
409
410 </div>
411 <h2 id="General_API_Considerations">General API Considerations</h2>
412 <div id="General_API_Considerations_CONTENT">
413 <p>All objects (such as terminals, time watchers etc.) are typical
414 reference-to-hash objects. The hash can be used to store anything you
415 like. All members starting with an underscore (such as <code>_ptr</code> or
416 <code>_hook</code>) are reserved for internal uses and <strong>MUST NOT</strong> be accessed or
417 modified).</p>
418 <p>When objects are destroyed on the C++ side, the perl object hashes are
419 emptied, so its best to store related objects such as time watchers and
420 the like inside the terminal object so they get destroyed as soon as the
421 terminal is destroyed.</p>
422 <p>Argument names also often indicate the type of a parameter. Here are some
423 hints on what they mean:</p>
424 <dl>
425 <dt>$text</dt>
426 <dd>
427 <p>Rxvt-unicodes special way of encoding text, where one &quot;unicode&quot; character
428 always represents one screen cell. See <cite>ROW_t</cite> for a discussion of this format.</p>
429 </dd>
430 <dt>$string</dt>
431 <dd>
432 <p>A perl text string, with an emphasis on <i>text</i>. It can store all unicode
433 characters and is to be distinguished with text encoded in a specific
434 encoding (often locale-specific) and binary data.</p>
435 </dd>
436 <dt>$octets</dt>
437 <dd>
438 <p>Either binary data or - more common - a text string encoded in a
439 locale-specific way.</p>
440 </dd>
441 </dl>
442
443 </div>
444 <h2 id="Extension_Objects">Extension Objects</h2>
445 <div id="Extension_Objects_CONTENT">
446 <p>Every perl extension is a perl class. A separate perl object is created
447 for each terminal, and each terminal has its own set of extenion objects,
448 which are passed as the first parameter to hooks. So extensions can use
449 their <code>$self</code> object without having to think about clashes with other
450 extensions or other terminals, with the exception of methods and members
451 that begin with an underscore character <code>_</code>: these are reserved for
452 internal use.</p>
453 <p>Although it isn't a <code>urxvt::term</code> object, you can call all methods of the
454 <code>urxvt::term</code> class on this object.</p>
455 <p>It has the following methods and data members:</p>
456 <dl>
457 <dt>$urxvt_term = $self-&gt;{term}</dt>
458 <dd>
459 <p>Returns the <code>urxvt::term</code> object associated with this instance of the
460 extension. This member <i>must not</i> be changed in any way.</p>
461 </dd>
462 <dt>$self-&gt;enable ($hook_name =&gt; $cb, [$hook_name =&gt; $cb..])</dt>
463 <dd>
464 <p>Dynamically enable the given hooks (named without the <code>on_</code> prefix) for
465 this extension, replacing any previous hook. This is useful when you want
466 to overwrite time-critical hooks only temporarily.</p>
467 </dd>
468 <dt>$self-&gt;disable ($hook_name[, $hook_name..])</dt>
469 <dd>
470 <p>Dynamically disable the given hooks.</p>
471 </dd>
472 </dl>
473
474 </div>
475 <h2 id="Hooks">Hooks</h2>
476 <div id="Hooks_CONTENT">
477 <p>The following subroutines can be declared in extension files, and will be
478 called whenever the relevant event happens.</p>
479 <p>The first argument passed to them is an extension object as described in
480 the in the <code>Extension Objects</code> section.</p>
481 <p><strong>All</strong> of these hooks must return a boolean value. If any of the called
482 hooks returns true, then the event counts as being <i>consumed</i>, and the
483 relevant action might not be carried out by the C++ code.</p>
484 <p><i>When in doubt, return a false value (preferably <code>()</code>).</i></p>
485 <dl>
486 <dt>on_init $term</dt>
487 <dd>
488 <p>Called after a new terminal object has been initialized, but before
489 windows are created or the command gets run. Most methods are unsafe to
490 call or deliver senseless data, as terminal size and other characteristics
491 have not yet been determined. You can safely query and change resources
492 and options, though. For many purposes the <code>on_start</code> hook is a better
493 place.</p>
494 </dd>
495 <dt>on_start $term</dt>
496 <dd>
497 <p>Called at the very end of initialisation of a new terminal, just before
498 trying to map (display) the toplevel and returning to the main loop.</p>
499 </dd>
500 <dt>on_destroy $term</dt>
501 <dd>
502 <p>Called whenever something tries to destroy terminal, when the terminal is
503 still fully functional (not for long, though).</p>
504 </dd>
505 <dt>on_reset $term</dt>
506 <dd>
507 <p>Called after the screen is &quot;reset&quot; for any reason, such as resizing or
508 control sequences. Here is where you can react on changes to size-related
509 variables.</p>
510 </dd>
511 <dt>on_child_start $term, $pid</dt>
512 <dd>
513 <p>Called just after the child process has been <code>fork</code>ed.</p>
514 </dd>
515 <dt>on_child_exit $term, $status</dt>
516 <dd>
517 <p>Called just after the child process has exited. <code>$status</code> is the status
518 from <code>waitpid</code>.</p>
519 </dd>
520 <dt>on_sel_make $term, $eventtime</dt>
521 <dd>
522 <p>Called whenever a selection has been made by the user, but before the
523 selection text is copied, so changes to the beginning, end or type of the
524 selection will be honored.</p>
525 <p>Returning a true value aborts selection making by urxvt, in which case you
526 have to make a selection yourself by calling <code>$term-&gt;selection_grab</code>.</p>
527 </dd>
528 <dt>on_sel_grab $term, $eventtime</dt>
529 <dd>
530 <p>Called whenever a selection has been copied, but before the selection is
531 requested from the server. The selection text can be queried and changed
532 by calling <code>$term-&gt;selection</code>.</p>
533 <p>Returning a true value aborts selection grabbing. It will still be highlighted.</p>
534 </dd>
535 <dt>on_sel_extend $term</dt>
536 <dd>
537 <p>Called whenever the user tries to extend the selection (e.g. with a double
538 click) and is either supposed to return false (normal operation), or
539 should extend the selection itself and return true to suppress the built-in
540 processing. This can happen multiple times, as long as the callback
541 returns true, it will be called on every further click by the user and is
542 supposed to enlarge the selection more and more, if possible.</p>
543 <p>See the <cite>selection</cite> example extension.</p>
544 </dd>
545 <dt>on_view_change $term, $offset</dt>
546 <dd>
547 <p>Called whenever the view offset changes, i.e. the user or program
548 scrolls. Offset <code>0</code> means display the normal terminal, positive values
549 show this many lines of scrollback.</p>
550 </dd>
551 <dt>on_scroll_back $term, $lines, $saved</dt>
552 <dd>
553 <p>Called whenever lines scroll out of the terminal area into the scrollback
554 buffer. <code>$lines</code> is the number of lines scrolled out and may be larger
555 than the scroll back buffer or the terminal.</p>
556 <p>It is called before lines are scrolled out (so rows 0 .. min ($lines - 1,
557 $nrow - 1) represent the lines to be scrolled out). <code>$saved</code> is the total
558 number of lines that will be in the scrollback buffer.</p>
559 </dd>
560 <dt>on_osc_seq $term, $op, $args</dt>
561 <dd>
562 <p>Called on every OSC sequence and can be used to suppress it or modify its
563 behaviour. The default should be to return an empty list. A true value
564 suppresses execution of the request completely. Make sure you don't get
565 confused by recursive invocations when you output an osc sequence within
566 this callback.</p>
567 <p><code>on_osc_seq_perl</code> should be used for new behaviour.</p>
568 </dd>
569 <dt>on_osc_seq_perl $term, $string</dt>
570 <dd>
571 <p>Called whenever the <strong>ESC ] 777 ; string ST</strong> command sequence (OSC =
572 operating system command) is processed. Cursor position and other state
573 information is up-to-date when this happens. For interoperability, the
574 string should start with the extension name and a colon, to distinguish
575 it from commands for other extensions, and this might be enforced in the
576 future.</p>
577 <p>Be careful not ever to trust (in a security sense) the data you receive,
578 as its source can not easily be controlled (e-mail content, messages from
579 other users on the same system etc.).</p>
580 </dd>
581 <dt>on_add_lines $term, $string</dt>
582 <dd>
583 <p>Called whenever text is about to be output, with the text as argument. You
584 can filter/change and output the text yourself by returning a true value
585 and calling <code>$term-&gt;scr_add_lines</code> yourself. Please note that this
586 might be very slow, however, as your hook is called for <strong>all</strong> text being
587 output.</p>
588 </dd>
589 <dt>on_tt_write $term, $octets</dt>
590 <dd>
591 <p>Called whenever some data is written to the tty/pty and can be used to
592 suppress or filter tty input.</p>
593 </dd>
594 <dt>on_line_update $term, $row</dt>
595 <dd>
596 <p>Called whenever a line was updated or changed. Can be used to filter
597 screen output (e.g. underline urls or other useless stuff). Only lines
598 that are being shown will be filtered, and, due to performance reasons,
599 not always immediately.</p>
600 <p>The row number is always the topmost row of the line if the line spans
601 multiple rows.</p>
602 <p>Please note that, if you change the line, then the hook might get called
603 later with the already-modified line (e.g. if unrelated parts change), so
604 you cannot just toggle rendition bits, but only set them.</p>
605 </dd>
606 <dt>on_refresh_begin $term</dt>
607 <dd>
608 <p>Called just before the screen gets redrawn. Can be used for overlay
609 or similar effects by modify terminal contents in refresh_begin, and
610 restoring them in refresh_end. The built-in overlay and selection display
611 code is run after this hook, and takes precedence.</p>
612 </dd>
613 <dt>on_refresh_end $term</dt>
614 <dd>
615 <p>Called just after the screen gets redrawn. See <code>on_refresh_begin</code>.</p>
616 </dd>
617 <dt>on_user_command $term, $string</dt>
618 <dd>
619 <p>Called whenever a user-configured event is being activated (e.g. via
620 a <code>perl:string</code> action bound to a key, see description of the <strong>keysym</strong>
621 resource in the rxvt(1) manpage).</p>
622 <p>The event is simply the action string. This interface is assumed to change
623 slightly in the future.</p>
624 </dd>
625 <dt>on_resize_all_windows $tern, $new_width, $new_height</dt>
626 <dd>
627 <p>Called just after the new window size has been calculated, but before
628 windows are actually being resized or hints are being set. If this hook
629 returns TRUE, setting of the window hints is being skipped.</p>
630 </dd>
631 <dt>on_x_event $term, $event</dt>
632 <dd>
633 <p>Called on every X event received on the vt window (and possibly other
634 windows). Should only be used as a last resort. Most event structure
635 members are not passed.</p>
636 </dd>
637 <dt>on_root_event $term, $event</dt>
638 <dd>
639 <p>Like <code>on_x_event</code>, but is called for events on the root window.</p>
640 </dd>
641 <dt>on_focus_in $term</dt>
642 <dd>
643 <p>Called whenever the window gets the keyboard focus, before rxvt-unicode
644 does focus in processing.</p>
645 </dd>
646 <dt>on_focus_out $term</dt>
647 <dd>
648 <p>Called whenever the window loses keyboard focus, before rxvt-unicode does
649 focus out processing.</p>
650 </dd>
651 <dt>on_configure_notify $term, $event</dt>
652 <dt>on_property_notify $term, $event</dt>
653 <dt>on_key_press $term, $event, $keysym, $octets</dt>
654 <dt>on_key_release $term, $event, $keysym</dt>
655 <dt>on_button_press $term, $event</dt>
656 <dt>on_button_release $term, $event</dt>
657 <dt>on_motion_notify $term, $event</dt>
658 <dt>on_map_notify $term, $event</dt>
659 <dt>on_unmap_notify $term, $event</dt>
660 <dd>
661 <p>Called whenever the corresponding X event is received for the terminal If
662 the hook returns true, then the even will be ignored by rxvt-unicode.</p>
663 <p>The event is a hash with most values as named by Xlib (see the XEvent
664 manpage), with the additional members <code>row</code> and <code>col</code>, which are the
665 (real, not screen-based) row and column under the mouse cursor.</p>
666 <p><code>on_key_press</code> additionally receives the string rxvt-unicode would
667 output, if any, in locale-specific encoding.</p>
668 <p>subwindow.</p>
669 </dd>
670 <dt>on_client_message $term, $event</dt>
671 <dt>on_wm_protocols $term, $event</dt>
672 <dt>on_wm_delete_window $term, $event</dt>
673 <dd>
674 <p>Called when various types of ClientMessage events are received (all with
675 format=32, WM_PROTOCOLS or WM_PROTOCOLS:WM_DELETE_WINDOW).</p>
676 </dd>
677 </dl>
678
679 </div>
680 <h2 id="Variables_in_the_code_urxvt_code_Pac">Variables in the <code>urxvt</code> Package</h2>
681 <div id="Variables_in_the_code_urxvt_code_Pac-2">
682 <dl>
683 <dt>$urxvt::LIBDIR</dt>
684 <dd>
685 <p>The rxvt-unicode library directory, where, among other things, the perl
686 modules and scripts are stored.</p>
687 </dd>
688 <dt>$urxvt::RESCLASS, $urxvt::RESCLASS</dt>
689 <dd>
690 <p>The resource class and name rxvt-unicode uses to look up X resources.</p>
691 </dd>
692 <dt>$urxvt::RXVTNAME</dt>
693 <dd>
694 <p>The basename of the installed binaries, usually <code>urxvt</code>.</p>
695 </dd>
696 <dt>$urxvt::TERM</dt>
697 <dd>
698 <p>The current terminal. This variable stores the current <code>urxvt::term</code>
699 object, whenever a callback/hook is executing.</p>
700 </dd>
701 <dt>@urxvt::TERM_INIT</dt>
702 <dd>
703 <p>All code references in this array will be called as methods of the next newly
704 created <code>urxvt::term</code> object (during the <code>on_init</code> phase). The array
705 gets cleared before the code references that were in it are being executed,
706 so references can push themselves onto it again if they so desire.</p>
707 <p>This complements to the perl-eval command line option, but gets executed
708 first.</p>
709 </dd>
710 <dt>@urxvt::TERM_EXT</dt>
711 <dd>
712 <p>Works similar to <code>@TERM_INIT</code>, but contains perl package/class names, which
713 get registered as normal extensions after calling the hooks in <code>@TERM_INIT</code>
714 but before other extensions. Gets cleared just like <code>@TERM_INIT</code>.</p>
715 </dd>
716 </dl>
717
718 </div>
719 <h2 id="Functions_in_the_code_urxvt_code_Pac">Functions in the <code>urxvt</code> Package</h2>
720 <div id="Functions_in_the_code_urxvt_code_Pac-2">
721 <dl>
722 <dt>urxvt::fatal $errormessage</dt>
723 <dd>
724 <p>Fatally aborts execution with the given error message. Avoid at all
725 costs! The only time this is acceptable is when the terminal process
726 starts up.</p>
727 </dd>
728 <dt>urxvt::warn $string</dt>
729 <dd>
730 <p>Calls <code>rxvt_warn</code> with the given string which should not include a
731 newline. The module also overwrites the <code>warn</code> builtin with a function
732 that calls this function.</p>
733 <p>Using this function has the advantage that its output ends up in the
734 correct place, e.g. on stderr of the connecting urxvtc client.</p>
735 <p>Messages have a size limit of 1023 bytes currently.</p>
736 </dd>
737 <dt>@terms = urxvt::termlist</dt>
738 <dd>
739 <p>Returns all urxvt::term objects that exist in this process, regardless of
740 whether they are started, being destroyed etc., so be careful. Only term
741 objects that have perl extensions attached will be returned (because there
742 is no urxvt::term objet associated with others).</p>
743 </dd>
744 <dt>$time = urxvt::NOW</dt>
745 <dd>
746 <p>Returns the &quot;current time&quot; (as per the event loop).</p>
747 </dd>
748 <dt>urxvt::CurrentTime</dt>
749 <dt>urxvt::ShiftMask, LockMask, ControlMask, Mod1Mask, Mod2Mask,
750 Mod3Mask, Mod4Mask, Mod5Mask, Button1Mask, Button2Mask, Button3Mask,
751 Button4Mask, Button5Mask, AnyModifier</dt>
752 <dt>urxvt::NoEventMask, KeyPressMask, KeyReleaseMask,
753 ButtonPressMask, ButtonReleaseMask, EnterWindowMask, LeaveWindowMask,
754 PointerMotionMask, PointerMotionHintMask, Button1MotionMask, Button2MotionMask,
755 Button3MotionMask, Button4MotionMask, Button5MotionMask, ButtonMotionMask,
756 KeymapStateMask, ExposureMask, VisibilityChangeMask, StructureNotifyMask,
757 ResizeRedirectMask, SubstructureNotifyMask, SubstructureRedirectMask,
758 FocusChangeMask, PropertyChangeMask, ColormapChangeMask, OwnerGrabButtonMask</dt>
759 <dt>urxvt::KeyPress, KeyRelease, ButtonPress, ButtonRelease, MotionNotify,
760 EnterNotify, LeaveNotify, FocusIn, FocusOut, KeymapNotify, Expose,
761 GraphicsExpose, NoExpose, VisibilityNotify, CreateNotify, DestroyNotify,
762 UnmapNotify, MapNotify, MapRequest, ReparentNotify, ConfigureNotify,
763 ConfigureRequest, GravityNotify, ResizeRequest, CirculateNotify,
764 CirculateRequest, PropertyNotify, SelectionClear, SelectionRequest,
765 SelectionNotify, ColormapNotify, ClientMessage, MappingNotify</dt>
766 <dd>
767 <p>Various constants for use in X calls and event processing.</p>
768 </dd>
769 </dl>
770
771 </div>
772 <h2 id="RENDITION">RENDITION</h2>
773 <div id="RENDITION_CONTENT">
774 <p>Rendition bitsets contain information about colour, font, font styles and
775 similar information for each screen cell.</p>
776 <p>The following &quot;macros&quot; deal with changes in rendition sets. You should
777 never just create a bitset, you should always modify an existing one,
778 as they contain important information required for correct operation of
779 rxvt-unicode.</p>
780 <dl>
781 <dt>$rend = urxvt::DEFAULT_RSTYLE</dt>
782 <dd>
783 <p>Returns the default rendition, as used when the terminal is starting up or
784 being reset. Useful as a base to start when creating renditions.</p>
785 </dd>
786 <dt>$rend = urxvt::OVERLAY_RSTYLE</dt>
787 <dd>
788 <p>Return the rendition mask used for overlays by default.</p>
789 </dd>
790 <dt>$rendbit = urxvt::RS_Bold, RS_Italic, RS_Blink, RS_RVid, RS_Uline</dt>
791 <dd>
792 <p>Return the bit that enabled bold, italic, blink, reverse-video and
793 underline, respectively. To enable such a style, just logically OR it into
794 the bitset.</p>
795 </dd>
796 <dt>$foreground = urxvt::GET_BASEFG $rend</dt>
797 <dt>$background = urxvt::GET_BASEBG $rend</dt>
798 <dd>
799 <p>Return the foreground/background colour index, respectively.</p>
800 </dd>
801 <dt>$rend = urxvt::SET_FGCOLOR $rend, $new_colour</dt>
802 <dt>$rend = urxvt::SET_BGCOLOR $rend, $new_colour</dt>
803 <dt>$rend = urxvt::SET_COLOR $rend, $new_fg, $new_bg</dt>
804 <dd>
805 <p>Replace the foreground/background colour in the rendition mask with the
806 specified one.</p>
807 </dd>
808 <dt>$value = urxvt::GET_CUSTOM $rend</dt>
809 <dd>
810 <p>Return the &quot;custom&quot; value: Every rendition has 5 bits for use by
811 extensions. They can be set and changed as you like and are initially
812 zero.</p>
813 </dd>
814 <dt>$rend = urxvt::SET_CUSTOM $rend, $new_value</dt>
815 <dd>
816 <p>Change the custom value.</p>
817 </dd>
818 </dl>
819
820 </div>
821 <h2 id="The_code_urxvt_anyevent_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::anyevent</code> Class</h2>
822 <div id="The_code_urxvt_anyevent_code_Class_C">
823 <p>The sole purpose of this class is to deliver an interface to the
824 <code>AnyEvent</code> module - any module using it will work inside urxvt without
825 further programming. The only exception is that you cannot wait on
826 condition variables, but non-blocking condvar use is ok. What this means
827 is that you cannot use blocking APIs, but the non-blocking variant should
828 work.</p>
829
830 </div>
831 <h2 id="The_code_urxvt_term_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::term</code> Class</h2>
832 <div id="The_code_urxvt_term_code_Class_CONTE">
833 <dl>
834 <dt>$term = new urxvt::term $envhashref, $rxvtname, [arg...]</dt>
835 <dd>
836 <p>Creates a new terminal, very similar as if you had started it with system
837 <code>$rxvtname, arg...</code>. <code>$envhashref</code> must be a reference to a <code>%ENV</code>-like
838 hash which defines the environment of the new terminal.</p>
839 <p>Croaks (and probably outputs an error message) if the new instance
840 couldn't be created. Returns <code>undef</code> if the new instance didn't
841 initialise perl, and the terminal object otherwise. The <code>init</code> and
842 <code>start</code> hooks will be called before this call returns, and are free to
843 refer to global data (which is race free).</p>
844 </dd>
845 <dt>$term-&gt;destroy</dt>
846 <dd>
847 <p>Destroy the terminal object (close the window, free resources
848 etc.). Please note that rxvt will not exit as long as any event
849 watchers (timers, io watchers) are still active.</p>
850 </dd>
851 <dt>$term-&gt;exec_async ($cmd[, @args])</dt>
852 <dd>
853 <p>Works like the combination of the <code>fork</code>/<code>exec</code> builtins, which executes
854 (&quot;starts&quot;) programs in the background. This function takes care of setting
855 the user environment before exec'ing the command (e.g. <code>PATH</code>) and should
856 be preferred over explicit calls to <code>exec</code> or <code>system</code>.</p>
857 <p>Returns the pid of the subprocess or <code>undef</code> on error.</p>
858 </dd>
859 <dt>$isset = $term-&gt;option ($optval[, $set])</dt>
860 <dd>
861 <p>Returns true if the option specified by <code>$optval</code> is enabled, and
862 optionally change it. All option values are stored by name in the hash
863 <code>%urxvt::OPTION</code>. Options not enabled in this binary are not in the hash.</p>
864 <p>Here is a likely non-exhaustive list of option names, please see the
865 source file <cite>/src/optinc.h</cite> to see the actual list:</p>
866 <pre> borderLess console cursorBlink cursorUnderline hold iconic insecure
867 intensityStyles jumpScroll loginShell mapAlert meta8 mouseWheelScrollPage
868 override-redirect pastableTabs pointerBlank reverseVideo scrollBar
869 scrollBar_floating scrollBar_right scrollTtyKeypress scrollTtyOutput
870 scrollWithBuffer secondaryScreen secondaryScroll skipBuiltinGlyphs
871 transparent tripleclickwords utmpInhibit visualBell
872
873 </pre>
874 </dd>
875 <dt>$value = $term-&gt;resource ($name[, $newval])</dt>
876 <dd>
877 <p>Returns the current resource value associated with a given name and
878 optionally sets a new value. Setting values is most useful in the <code>init</code>
879 hook. Unset resources are returned and accepted as <code>undef</code>.</p>
880 <p>The new value must be properly encoded to a suitable character encoding
881 before passing it to this method. Similarly, the returned value may need
882 to be converted from the used encoding to text.</p>
883 <p>Resource names are as defined in <cite>src/rsinc.h</cite>. Colours can be specified
884 as resource names of the form <code>color+&lt;index&gt;</code>, e.g. <code>color+5</code>. (will
885 likely change).</p>
886 <p>Please note that resource strings will currently only be freed when the
887 terminal is destroyed, so changing options frequently will eat memory.</p>
888 <p>Here is a likely non-exhaustive list of resource names, not all of which
889 are supported in every build, please see the source file <cite>/src/rsinc.h</cite>
890 to see the actual list:</p>
891 <pre> answerbackstring backgroundPixmap backspace_key boldFont boldItalicFont
892 borderLess color cursorBlink cursorUnderline cutchars delete_key
893 display_name embed ext_bwidth fade font geometry hold iconName
894 imFont imLocale inputMethod insecure int_bwidth intensityStyles
895 italicFont jumpScroll lineSpace loginShell mapAlert meta8 modifier
896 mouseWheelScrollPage name override_redirect pastableTabs path perl_eval
897 perl_ext_1 perl_ext_2 perl_lib pointerBlank pointerBlankDelay
898 preeditType print_pipe pty_fd reverseVideo saveLines scrollBar
899 scrollBar_align scrollBar_floating scrollBar_right scrollBar_thickness
900 scrollTtyKeypress scrollTtyOutput scrollWithBuffer scrollstyle
901 secondaryScreen secondaryScroll selectstyle shade term_name title
902 transient_for transparent transparent_all tripleclickwords utmpInhibit
903 visualBell
904
905 </pre>
906 </dd>
907 <dt>$value = $term-&gt;x_resource ($pattern)</dt>
908 <dd>
909 <p>Returns the X-Resource for the given pattern, excluding the program or
910 class name, i.e. <code>$term-&gt;x_resource (&quot;boldFont&quot;)</code> should return the
911 same value as used by this instance of rxvt-unicode. Returns <code>undef</code> if no
912 resource with that pattern exists.</p>
913 <p>This method should only be called during the <code>on_start</code> hook, as there is
914 only one resource database per display, and later invocations might return
915 the wrong resources.</p>
916 </dd>
917 <dt>$success = $term-&gt;parse_keysym ($keysym_spec, $command_string)</dt>
918 <dd>
919 <p>Adds a keymap translation exactly as specified via a resource. See the
920 <code>keysym</code> resource in the rxvt(1) manpage.</p>
921 </dd>
922 <dt>$rend = $term-&gt;rstyle ([$new_rstyle])</dt>
923 <dd>
924 <p>Return and optionally change the current rendition. Text that is output by
925 the terminal application will use this style.</p>
926 </dd>
927 <dt>($row, $col) = $term-&gt;screen_cur ([$row, $col])</dt>
928 <dd>
929 <p>Return the current coordinates of the text cursor position and optionally
930 set it (which is usually bad as applications don't expect that).</p>
931 </dd>
932 <dt>($row, $col) = $term-&gt;selection_mark ([$row, $col])</dt>
933 <dt>($row, $col) = $term-&gt;selection_beg ([$row, $col])</dt>
934 <dt>($row, $col) = $term-&gt;selection_end ([$row, $col])</dt>
935 <dd>
936 <p>Return the current values of the selection mark, begin or end positions,
937 and optionally set them to new values.</p>
938 </dd>
939 <dt>$term-&gt;selection_make ($eventtime[, $rectangular])</dt>
940 <dd>
941 <p>Tries to make a selection as set by <code>selection_beg</code> and
942 <code>selection_end</code>. If <code>$rectangular</code> is true (default: false), a
943 rectangular selection will be made. This is the prefered function to make
944 a selection.</p>
945 </dd>
946 <dt>$success = $term-&gt;selection_grab ($eventtime)</dt>
947 <dd>
948 <p>Try to request the primary selection text from the server (for example, as
949 set by the next method). No visual feedback will be given. This function
950 is mostly useful from within <code>on_sel_grab</code> hooks.</p>
951 </dd>
952 <dt>$oldtext = $term-&gt;selection ([$newtext])</dt>
953 <dd>
954 <p>Return the current selection text and optionally replace it by <code>$newtext</code>.</p>
955 </dd>
956 <dt>$term-&gt;overlay_simple ($x, $y, $text)</dt>
957 <dd>
958 <p>Create a simple multi-line overlay box. See the next method for details.</p>
959 </dd>
960 <dt>$term-&gt;overlay ($x, $y, $width, $height[, $rstyle[, $border]])</dt>
961 <dd>
962 <p>Create a new (empty) overlay at the given position with the given
963 width/height. <code>$rstyle</code> defines the initial rendition style
964 (default: <code>OVERLAY_RSTYLE</code>).</p>
965 <p>If <code>$border</code> is <code>2</code> (default), then a decorative border will be put
966 around the box.</p>
967 <p>If either <code>$x</code> or <code>$y</code> is negative, then this is counted from the
968 right/bottom side, respectively.</p>
969 <p>This method returns an urxvt::overlay object. The overlay will be visible
970 as long as the perl object is referenced.</p>
971 <p>The methods currently supported on <code>urxvt::overlay</code> objects are:</p>
972 <p>
973 <dl>
974 <dt>$overlay-&gt;set ($x, $y, $text, $rend)</dt>
975 <dd>
976 <p>Similar to <code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code> and <code>$term-&gt;ROW_r</code> in that it puts
977 text in rxvt-unicode's special encoding and an array of rendition values
978 at a specific position inside the overlay.</p>
979 </dd>
980 <dt>$overlay-&gt;hide</dt>
981 <dd>
982 <p>If visible, hide the overlay, but do not destroy it.</p>
983 </dd>
984 <dt>$overlay-&gt;show</dt>
985 <dd>
986 <p>If hidden, display the overlay again.</p>
987 </dd>
988 </dl>
989 </p>
990 </dd>
991 <dt>$popup = $term-&gt;popup ($event)</dt>
992 <dd>
993 <p>Creates a new <code>urxvt::popup</code> object that implements a popup menu. The
994 <code>$event</code> <i>must</i> be the event causing the menu to pop up (a button event,
995 currently).</p>
996 </dd>
997 <dt>$cellwidth = $term-&gt;strwidth ($string)</dt>
998 <dd>
999 <p>Returns the number of screen-cells this string would need. Correctly
1000 accounts for wide and combining characters.</p>
1001 </dd>
1002 <dt>$octets = $term-&gt;locale_encode ($string)</dt>
1003 <dd>
1004 <p>Convert the given text string into the corresponding locale encoding.</p>
1005 </dd>
1006 <dt>$string = $term-&gt;locale_decode ($octets)</dt>
1007 <dd>
1008 <p>Convert the given locale-encoded octets into a perl string.</p>
1009 </dd>
1010 <dt>$term-&gt;scr_xor_span ($beg_row, $beg_col, $end_row, $end_col[, $rstyle])</dt>
1011 <dd>
1012 <p>XORs the rendition values in the given span with the provided value
1013 (default: <code>RS_RVid</code>), which <i>MUST NOT</i> contain font styles. Useful in
1014 refresh hooks to provide effects similar to the selection.</p>
1015 </dd>
1016 <dt>$term-&gt;scr_xor_rect ($beg_row, $beg_col, $end_row, $end_col[, $rstyle1[, $rstyle2]])</dt>
1017 <dd>
1018 <p>Similar to <code>scr_xor_span</code>, but xors a rectangle instead. Trailing
1019 whitespace will additionally be xored with the <code>$rstyle2</code>, which defaults
1020 to <code>RS_RVid | RS_Uline</code>, which removes reverse video again and underlines
1021 it instead. Both styles <i>MUST NOT</i> contain font styles.</p>
1022 </dd>
1023 <dt>$term-&gt;scr_bell</dt>
1024 <dd>
1025 <p>Ring the bell!</p>
1026 </dd>
1027 <dt>$term-&gt;scr_add_lines ($string)</dt>
1028 <dd>
1029 <p>Write the given text string to the screen, as if output by the application
1030 running inside the terminal. It may not contain command sequences (escape
1031 codes), but is free to use line feeds, carriage returns and tabs. The
1032 string is a normal text string, not in locale-dependent encoding.</p>
1033 <p>Normally its not a good idea to use this function, as programs might be
1034 confused by changes in cursor position or scrolling. Its useful inside a
1035 <code>on_add_lines</code> hook, though.</p>
1036 </dd>
1037 <dt>$term-&gt;scr_change_screen ($screen)</dt>
1038 <dd>
1039 <p>Switch to given screen - 0 primary, 1 secondary.</p>
1040 </dd>
1041 <dt>$term-&gt;cmd_parse ($octets)</dt>
1042 <dd>
1043 <p>Similar to <code>scr_add_lines</code>, but the argument must be in the
1044 locale-specific encoding of the terminal and can contain command sequences
1045 (escape codes) that will be interpreted.</p>
1046 </dd>
1047 <dt>$term-&gt;tt_write ($octets)</dt>
1048 <dd>
1049 <p>Write the octets given in <code>$data</code> to the tty (i.e. as program input). To
1050 pass characters instead of octets, you should convert your strings first
1051 to the locale-specific encoding using <code>$term-&gt;locale_encode</code>.</p>
1052 </dd>
1053 <dt>$old_events = $term-&gt;pty_ev_events ([$new_events])</dt>
1054 <dd>
1055 <p>Replaces the event mask of the pty watcher by the given event mask. Can
1056 be used to suppress input and output handling to the pty/tty. See the
1057 description of <code>urxvt::timer-&gt;events</code>. Make sure to always restore
1058 the previous value.</p>
1059 </dd>
1060 <dt>$fd = $term-&gt;pty_fd</dt>
1061 <dd>
1062 <p>Returns the master file descriptor for the pty in use, or <code>-1</code> if no pty
1063 is used.</p>
1064 </dd>
1065 <dt>$windowid = $term-&gt;parent</dt>
1066 <dd>
1067 <p>Return the window id of the toplevel window.</p>
1068 </dd>
1069 <dt>$windowid = $term-&gt;vt</dt>
1070 <dd>
1071 <p>Return the window id of the terminal window.</p>
1072 </dd>
1073 <dt>$term-&gt;vt_emask_add ($x_event_mask)</dt>
1074 <dd>
1075 <p>Adds the specified events to the vt event mask. Useful e.g. when you want
1076 to receive pointer events all the times:</p>
1077 <pre> $term-&gt;vt_emask_add (urxvt::PointerMotionMask);
1078
1079 </pre>
1080 </dd>
1081 <dt>$term-&gt;focus_in</dt>
1082 <dt>$term-&gt;focus_out</dt>
1083 <dt>$term-&gt;key_press ($state, $keycode[, $time])</dt>
1084 <dt>$term-&gt;key_release ($state, $keycode[, $time])</dt>
1085 <dd>
1086 <p>Deliver various fake events to to terminal.</p>
1087 </dd>
1088 <dt>$window_width = $term-&gt;width</dt>
1089 <dt>$window_height = $term-&gt;height</dt>
1090 <dt>$font_width = $term-&gt;fwidth</dt>
1091 <dt>$font_height = $term-&gt;fheight</dt>
1092 <dt>$font_ascent = $term-&gt;fbase</dt>
1093 <dt>$terminal_rows = $term-&gt;nrow</dt>
1094 <dt>$terminal_columns = $term-&gt;ncol</dt>
1095 <dt>$has_focus = $term-&gt;focus</dt>
1096 <dt>$is_mapped = $term-&gt;mapped</dt>
1097 <dt>$max_scrollback = $term-&gt;saveLines</dt>
1098 <dt>$nrow_plus_saveLines = $term-&gt;total_rows</dt>
1099 <dt>$topmost_scrollback_row = $term-&gt;top_row</dt>
1100 <dd>
1101 <p>Return various integers describing terminal characteristics.</p>
1102 </dd>
1103 <dt>$x_display = $term-&gt;display_id</dt>
1104 <dd>
1105 <p>Return the DISPLAY used by rxvt-unicode.</p>
1106 </dd>
1107 <dt>$lc_ctype = $term-&gt;locale</dt>
1108 <dd>
1109 <p>Returns the LC_CTYPE category string used by this rxvt-unicode.</p>
1110 </dd>
1111 <dt>$env = $term-&gt;env</dt>
1112 <dd>
1113 <p>Returns a copy of the environment in effect for the terminal as a hashref
1114 similar to <code>\%ENV</code>.</p>
1115 </dd>
1116 <dt>@envv = $term-&gt;envv</dt>
1117 <dd>
1118 <p>Returns the environment as array of strings of the form <code>VAR=VALUE</code>.</p>
1119 </dd>
1120 <dt>@argv = $term-&gt;argv</dt>
1121 <dd>
1122 <p>Return the argument vector as this terminal, similar to @ARGV, but
1123 includes the program name as first element.</p>
1124 </dd>
1125 <dt>$modifiermask = $term-&gt;ModLevel3Mask</dt>
1126 <dt>$modifiermask = $term-&gt;ModMetaMask</dt>
1127 <dt>$modifiermask = $term-&gt;ModNumLockMask</dt>
1128 <dd>
1129 <p>Return the modifier masks corresponding to the &quot;ISO Level 3 Shift&quot; (often
1130 AltGr), the meta key (often Alt) and the num lock key, if applicable.</p>
1131 </dd>
1132 <dt>$screen = $term-&gt;current_screen</dt>
1133 <dd>
1134 <p>Returns the currently displayed screen (0 primary, 1 secondary).</p>
1135 </dd>
1136 <dt>$cursor_is_hidden = $term-&gt;hidden_cursor</dt>
1137 <dd>
1138 <p>Returns whether the cursor is currently hidden or not.</p>
1139 </dd>
1140 <dt>$view_start = $term-&gt;view_start ([$newvalue])</dt>
1141 <dd>
1142 <p>Returns the row number of the topmost displayed line. Maximum value is
1143 <code>0</code>, which displays the normal terminal contents. Lower values scroll
1144 this many lines into the scrollback buffer.</p>
1145 </dd>
1146 <dt>$term-&gt;want_refresh</dt>
1147 <dd>
1148 <p>Requests a screen refresh. At the next opportunity, rxvt-unicode will
1149 compare the on-screen display with its stored representation. If they
1150 differ, it redraws the differences.</p>
1151 <p>Used after changing terminal contents to display them.</p>
1152 </dd>
1153 <dt>$text = $term-&gt;ROW_t ($row_number[, $new_text[, $start_col]])</dt>
1154 <dd>
1155 <p>Returns the text of the entire row with number <code>$row_number</code>. Row <code>0</code>
1156 is the topmost terminal line, row <code>$term-&gt;$ncol-1</code> is the bottommost
1157 terminal line. The scrollback buffer starts at line <code>-1</code> and extends to
1158 line <code>-$term-&gt;nsaved</code>. Nothing will be returned if a nonexistent line
1159 is requested.</p>
1160 <p>If <code>$new_text</code> is specified, it will replace characters in the current
1161 line, starting at column <code>$start_col</code> (default <code>0</code>), which is useful
1162 to replace only parts of a line. The font index in the rendition will
1163 automatically be updated.</p>
1164 <p><code>$text</code> is in a special encoding: tabs and wide characters that use more
1165 than one cell when displayed are padded with <code>$urxvt::NOCHAR</code> (chr 65535)
1166 characters. Characters with combining characters and other characters that
1167 do not fit into the normal tetx encoding will be replaced with characters
1168 in the private use area.</p>
1169 <p>You have to obey this encoding when changing text. The advantage is
1170 that <code>substr</code> and similar functions work on screen cells and not on
1171 characters.</p>
1172 <p>The methods <code>$term-&gt;special_encode</code> and <code>$term-&gt;special_decode</code>
1173 can be used to convert normal strings into this encoding and vice versa.</p>
1174 </dd>
1175 <dt>$rend = $term-&gt;ROW_r ($row_number[, $new_rend[, $start_col]])</dt>
1176 <dd>
1177 <p>Like <code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code>, but returns an arrayref with rendition
1178 bitsets. Rendition bitsets contain information about colour, font, font
1179 styles and similar information. See also <code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code>.</p>
1180 <p>When setting rendition, the font mask will be ignored.</p>
1181 <p>See the section on RENDITION, above.</p>
1182 </dd>
1183 <dt>$length = $term-&gt;ROW_l ($row_number[, $new_length])</dt>
1184 <dd>
1185 <p>Returns the number of screen cells that are in use (&quot;the line
1186 length&quot;). Unlike the urxvt core, this returns <code>$term-&gt;ncol</code> if the
1187 line is joined with the following one.</p>
1188 </dd>
1189 <dt>$bool = $term-&gt;is_longer ($row_number)</dt>
1190 <dd>
1191 <p>Returns true if the row is part of a multiple-row logical &quot;line&quot; (i.e.
1192 joined with the following row), which means all characters are in use
1193 and it is continued on the next row (and possibly a continuation of the
1194 previous row(s)).</p>
1195 </dd>
1196 <dt>$line = $term-&gt;line ($row_number)</dt>
1197 <dd>
1198 <p>Create and return a new <code>urxvt::line</code> object that stores information
1199 about the logical line that row <code>$row_number</code> is part of. It supports the
1200 following methods:</p>
1201 <p>
1202 <dl>
1203 <dt>$text = $line-&gt;t ([$new_text])</dt>
1204 <dd>
1205 <p>Returns or replaces the full text of the line, similar to <code>ROW_t</code></p>
1206 </dd>
1207 <dt>$rend = $line-&gt;r ([$new_rend])</dt>
1208 <dd>
1209 <p>Returns or replaces the full rendition array of the line, similar to <code>ROW_r</code></p>
1210 </dd>
1211 <dt>$length = $line-&gt;l</dt>
1212 <dd>
1213 <p>Returns the length of the line in cells, similar to <code>ROW_l</code>.</p>
1214 </dd>
1215 <dt>$rownum = $line-&gt;beg</dt>
1216 <dt>$rownum = $line-&gt;end</dt>
1217 <dd>
1218 <p>Return the row number of the first/last row of the line, respectively.</p>
1219 </dd>
1220 <dt>$offset = $line-&gt;offset_of ($row, $col)</dt>
1221 <dd>
1222 <p>Returns the character offset of the given row|col pair within the logical
1223 line. Works for rows outside the line, too, and returns corresponding
1224 offsets outside the string.</p>
1225 </dd>
1226 <dt>($row, $col) = $line-&gt;coord_of ($offset)</dt>
1227 <dd>
1228 <p>Translates a string offset into terminal coordinates again.</p>
1229 </dd>
1230 </dl>
1231 </p>
1232 </dd>
1233 <dt>$text = $term-&gt;special_encode $string</dt>
1234 <dd>
1235 <p>Converts a perl string into the special encoding used by rxvt-unicode,
1236 where one character corresponds to one screen cell. See
1237 <code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code> for details.</p>
1238 </dd>
1239 <dt>$string = $term-&gt;special_decode $text</dt>
1240 <dd>
1241 <p>Converts rxvt-unicodes text representation into a perl string. See
1242 <code>$term-&gt;ROW_t</code> for details.</p>
1243 </dd>
1244 <dt>$success = $term-&gt;grab_button ($button, $modifiermask[, $window = $term-&gt;vt])</dt>
1245 <dt>$term-&gt;ungrab_button ($button, $modifiermask[, $window = $term-&gt;vt])</dt>
1246 <dd>
1247 <p>Register/unregister a synchronous button grab. See the XGrabButton
1248 manpage.</p>
1249 </dd>
1250 <dt>$success = $term-&gt;grab ($eventtime[, $sync])</dt>
1251 <dd>
1252 <p>Calls XGrabPointer and XGrabKeyboard in asynchronous (default) or
1253 synchronous (<code>$sync</code> is true). Also remembers the grab timestamp.</p>
1254 </dd>
1255 <dt>$term-&gt;allow_events_async</dt>
1256 <dd>
1257 <p>Calls XAllowEvents with AsyncBoth for the most recent grab.</p>
1258 </dd>
1259 <dt>$term-&gt;allow_events_sync</dt>
1260 <dd>
1261 <p>Calls XAllowEvents with SyncBoth for the most recent grab.</p>
1262 </dd>
1263 <dt>$term-&gt;allow_events_replay</dt>
1264 <dd>
1265 <p>Calls XAllowEvents with both ReplayPointer and ReplayKeyboard for the most
1266 recent grab.</p>
1267 </dd>
1268 <dt>$term-&gt;ungrab</dt>
1269 <dd>
1270 <p>Calls XUngrab for the most recent grab. Is called automatically on
1271 evaluation errors, as it is better to lose the grab in the error case as
1272 the session.</p>
1273 </dd>
1274 <dt>$atom = $term-&gt;XInternAtom ($atom_name[, $only_if_exists])</dt>
1275 <dt>$atom_name = $term-&gt;XGetAtomName ($atom)</dt>
1276 <dt>@atoms = $term-&gt;XListProperties ($window)</dt>
1277 <dt>($type,$format,$octets) = $term-&gt;XGetWindowProperty ($window, $property)</dt>
1278 <dt>$term-&gt;XChangeWindowProperty ($window, $property, $type, $format, $octets)</dt>
1279 <dt>$term-&gt;XDeleteProperty ($window, $property)</dt>
1280 <dt>$window = $term-&gt;DefaultRootWindow</dt>
1281 <dt>$term-&gt;XReparentWindow ($window, $parent, [$x, $y])</dt>
1282 <dt>$term-&gt;XMapWindow ($window)</dt>
1283 <dt>$term-&gt;XUnmapWindow ($window)</dt>
1284 <dt>$term-&gt;XMoveResizeWindow ($window, $x, $y, $width, $height)</dt>
1285 <dt>($x, $y, $child_window) = $term-&gt;XTranslateCoordinates ($src, $dst, $x, $y)</dt>
1286 <dt>$term-&gt;XChangeInput ($window, $add_events[, $del_events])</dt>
1287 <dd>
1288 <p>Various X or X-related functions. The <code>$term</code> object only serves as
1289 the source of the display, otherwise those functions map more-or-less
1290 directory onto the X functions of the same name.</p>
1291 </dd>
1292 </dl>
1293
1294 </div>
1295 <h2 id="The_code_urxvt_popup_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::popup</code> Class</h2>
1296 <div id="The_code_urxvt_popup_code_Class_CONT">
1297 <dl>
1298 <dt>$popup-&gt;add_title ($title)</dt>
1299 <dd>
1300 <p>Adds a non-clickable title to the popup.</p>
1301 </dd>
1302 <dt>$popup-&gt;add_separator ([$sepchr])</dt>
1303 <dd>
1304 <p>Creates a separator, optionally using the character given as <code>$sepchr</code>.</p>
1305 </dd>
1306 <dt>$popup-&gt;add_button ($text, $cb)</dt>
1307 <dd>
1308 <p>Adds a clickable button to the popup. <code>$cb</code> is called whenever it is
1309 selected.</p>
1310 </dd>
1311 <dt>$popup-&gt;add_toggle ($text, $initial_value, $cb)</dt>
1312 <dd>
1313 <p>Adds a toggle/checkbox item to the popup. The callback gets called
1314 whenever it gets toggled, with a boolean indicating its new value as its
1315 first argument.</p>
1316 </dd>
1317 <dt>$popup-&gt;show</dt>
1318 <dd>
1319 <p>Displays the popup (which is initially hidden).</p>
1320 </dd>
1321 </dl>
1322
1323 </div>
1324 <h2 id="The_code_urxvt_timer_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::timer</code> Class</h2>
1325 <div id="The_code_urxvt_timer_code_Class_CONT">
1326 <p>This class implements timer watchers/events. Time is represented as a
1327 fractional number of seconds since the epoch. Example:</p>
1328 <pre> $term-&gt;{overlay} = $term-&gt;overlay (-1, 0, 8, 1, urxvt::OVERLAY_RSTYLE, 0);
1329 $term-&gt;{timer} = urxvt::timer
1330 -&gt;new
1331 -&gt;interval (1)
1332 -&gt;cb (sub {
1333 $term-&gt;{overlay}-&gt;set (0, 0,
1334 sprintf &quot;%2d:%02d:%02d&quot;, (localtime urxvt::NOW)[2,1,0]);
1335 });
1336
1337 </pre>
1338 <dl>
1339 <dt>$timer = new urxvt::timer</dt>
1340 <dd>
1341 <p>Create a new timer object in started state. It is scheduled to fire
1342 immediately.</p>
1343 </dd>
1344 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;cb (sub { my ($timer) = @_; ... })</dt>
1345 <dd>
1346 <p>Set the callback to be called when the timer triggers.</p>
1347 </dd>
1348 <dt>$tstamp = $timer-&gt;at</dt>
1349 <dd>
1350 <p>Return the time this watcher will fire next.</p>
1351 </dd>
1352 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;set ($tstamp)</dt>
1353 <dd>
1354 <p>Set the time the event is generated to $tstamp.</p>
1355 </dd>
1356 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;interval ($interval)</dt>
1357 <dd>
1358 <p>Normally (and when <code>$interval</code> is <code>0</code>), the timer will automatically
1359 stop after it has fired once. If <code>$interval</code> is non-zero, then the timer
1360 is automatically rescheduled at the given intervals.</p>
1361 </dd>
1362 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;start</dt>
1363 <dd>
1364 <p>Start the timer.</p>
1365 </dd>
1366 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;start ($tstamp)</dt>
1367 <dd>
1368 <p>Set the event trigger time to <code>$tstamp</code> and start the timer.</p>
1369 </dd>
1370 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;after ($delay)</dt>
1371 <dd>
1372 <p>Like <code>start</code>, but sets the expiry timer to c&lt;urxvt::NOW + $delay&gt;.</p>
1373 </dd>
1374 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;stop</dt>
1375 <dd>
1376 <p>Stop the timer.</p>
1377 </dd>
1378 </dl>
1379
1380 </div>
1381 <h2 id="The_code_urxvt_iow_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::iow</code> Class</h2>
1382 <div id="The_code_urxvt_iow_code_Class_CONTEN">
1383 <p>This class implements io watchers/events. Example:</p>
1384 <pre> $term-&gt;{socket} = ...
1385 $term-&gt;{iow} = urxvt::iow
1386 -&gt;new
1387 -&gt;fd (fileno $term-&gt;{socket})
1388 -&gt;events (urxvt::EVENT_READ)
1389 -&gt;start
1390 -&gt;cb (sub {
1391 my ($iow, $revents) = @_;
1392 # $revents must be 1 here, no need to check
1393 sysread $term-&gt;{socket}, my $buf, 8192
1394 or end-of-file;
1395 });
1396
1397
1398
1399
1400 </pre>
1401 <dl>
1402 <dt>$iow = new urxvt::iow</dt>
1403 <dd>
1404 <p>Create a new io watcher object in stopped state.</p>
1405 </dd>
1406 <dt>$iow = $iow-&gt;cb (sub { my ($iow, $reventmask) = @_; ... })</dt>
1407 <dd>
1408 <p>Set the callback to be called when io events are triggered. <code>$reventmask</code>
1409 is a bitset as described in the <code>events</code> method.</p>
1410 </dd>
1411 <dt>$iow = $iow-&gt;fd ($fd)</dt>
1412 <dd>
1413 <p>Set the file descriptor (not handle) to watch.</p>
1414 </dd>
1415 <dt>$iow = $iow-&gt;events ($eventmask)</dt>
1416 <dd>
1417 <p>Set the event mask to watch. The only allowed values are
1418 <code>urxvt::EVENT_READ</code> and <code>urxvt::EVENT_WRITE</code>, which might be ORed
1419 together, or <code>urxvt::EVENT_NONE</code>.</p>
1420 </dd>
1421 <dt>$iow = $iow-&gt;start</dt>
1422 <dd>
1423 <p>Start watching for requested events on the given handle.</p>
1424 </dd>
1425 <dt>$iow = $iow-&gt;stop</dt>
1426 <dd>
1427 <p>Stop watching for events on the given file handle.</p>
1428 </dd>
1429 </dl>
1430
1431 </div>
1432 <h2 id="The_code_urxvt_iw_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::iw</code> Class</h2>
1433 <div id="The_code_urxvt_iw_code_Class_CONTENT">
1434 <p>This class implements idle watchers, that get called automatically when
1435 the process is idle. They should return as fast as possible, after doing
1436 some useful work.</p>
1437 <dl>
1438 <dt>$iw = new urxvt::iw</dt>
1439 <dd>
1440 <p>Create a new idle watcher object in stopped state.</p>
1441 </dd>
1442 <dt>$iw = $iw-&gt;cb (sub { my ($iw) = @_; ... })</dt>
1443 <dd>
1444 <p>Set the callback to be called when the watcher triggers.</p>
1445 </dd>
1446 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;start</dt>
1447 <dd>
1448 <p>Start the watcher.</p>
1449 </dd>
1450 <dt>$timer = $timer-&gt;stop</dt>
1451 <dd>
1452 <p>Stop the watcher.</p>
1453 </dd>
1454 </dl>
1455
1456 </div>
1457 <h2 id="The_code_urxvt_pw_code_Class">The <code>urxvt::pw</code> Class</h2>
1458 <div id="The_code_urxvt_pw_code_Class_CONTENT">
1459 <p>This class implements process watchers. They create an event whenever a
1460 process exits, after which they stop automatically.</p>
1461 <pre> my $pid = fork;
1462 ...
1463 $term-&gt;{pw} = urxvt::pw
1464 -&gt;new
1465 -&gt;start ($pid)
1466 -&gt;cb (sub {
1467 my ($pw, $exit_status) = @_;
1468 ...
1469 });
1470
1471 </pre>
1472 <dl>
1473 <dt>$pw = new urxvt::pw</dt>
1474 <dd>
1475 <p>Create a new process watcher in stopped state.</p>
1476 </dd>
1477 <dt>$pw = $pw-&gt;cb (sub { my ($pw, $exit_status) = @_; ... })</dt>
1478 <dd>
1479 <p>Set the callback to be called when the timer triggers.</p>
1480 </dd>
1481 <dt>$pw = $timer-&gt;start ($pid)</dt>
1482 <dd>
1483 <p>Tells the watcher to start watching for process <code>$pid</code>.</p>
1484 </dd>
1485 <dt>$pw = $pw-&gt;stop</dt>
1486 <dd>
1487 <p>Stop the watcher.</p>
1488 </dd>
1489 </dl>
1490
1491 </div>
1492 <h1 id="ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
1493 <div id="ENVIRONMENT_CONTENT">
1494
1495 </div>
1496 <h2 id="URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY">URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY</h2>
1497 <div id="URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY_CONTENT">
1498 <p>This variable controls the verbosity level of the perl extension. Higher
1499 numbers indicate more verbose output.</p>
1500 <dl>
1501 <dt>== 0 - fatal messages</dt>
1502 <dt>&gt;= 3 - script loading and management</dt>
1503 <dt>&gt;=10 - all called hooks</dt>
1504 <dt>&gt;=11 - hook return values</dt>
1505 </dl>
1506
1507 </div>
1508 <h1 id="AUTHOR">AUTHOR</h1><p><a href="#TOP" class="toplink">Top</a></p>
1509 <div id="AUTHOR_CONTENT">
1510 <pre> Marc Lehmann &lt;pcg@goof.com&gt;
1511 http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode
1512
1513 </pre>
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