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1 NAME
2 rxvtperl - rxvt-unicode's embedded perl interpreter
3
4 SYNOPSIS
5 # create a file grab_test in $HOME:
6
7 sub on_sel_grab {
8 warn "you selected ", $_[0]->selection;
9 ()
10 }
11
12 # start a rxvt using it:
13
14 rxvt --perl-lib $HOME -pe grab_test
15
16 DESCRIPTION
17 Everytime a terminal object gets created, extension scripts specified
18 via the "perl" resource are loaded and associated with it.
19
20 Scripts are compiled in a 'use strict' and 'use utf8' environment, and
21 thus must be encoded as UTF-8.
22
23 Each script will only ever be loaded once, even in rxvtd, where scripts
24 will be shared (but not enabled) for all terminals.
25
26 Prepackaged Extensions
27 This section describes the extensiosn delivered with this version. You
28 can find them in /opt/rxvt/lib/urxvt/perl/.
29
30 You can activate them like this:
31
32 rxvt -pe <extensionname>
33
34 selection (enabled by default)
35 Intelligent selection. This extension tries to be more intelligent
36 when the user extends selections (double-click). Right now, it tries
37 to select urls and complete shell-quoted arguments, which is very
38 convenient, too, if your ls supports "--quoting-style=shell".
39
40 It also offers the following bindable event:
41
42 rot13
43 Rot-13 the selection when activated. Used via keyboard trigger:
44
45 URxvt.keysym.C-M-r: perl:selection:rot13
46
47 option-popup (enabled by default)
48 Binds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button2 that lets you toggle (some)
49 options at runtime.
50
51 selection-popup (enabled by default)
52 Binds a popup menu to Ctrl-Button3 that lets you convert the
53 selection text into various other formats/action.
54
55 searchable-scrollback<hotkey> (enabled by default)
56 Adds regex search functionality to the scrollback buffer, triggered
57 by a hotkey (default: "M-s"). When in search mode, normal terminal
58 input/output is suspended.
59
60 "/" starts an incremental regex search, "n" searches further, "p" or
61 "N" jump to the previous match, "G" jumps to the bottom and clears
62 the history, "enter" leaves search mode at the current position and
63 "escape" returns to the original position.
64
65 digital-clock
66 Displays a digital clock using the built-in overlay.
67
68 mark-urls
69 Uses per-line display filtering ("on_line_update") to underline
70 urls.
71
72 block-graphics-to-ascii
73 A not very useful example of filtering all text output to the
74 terminal, by replacing all line-drawing characters (U+2500 ..
75 U+259F) by a similar-looking ascii character.
76
77 example-refresh-hooks
78 Displays a very simple digital clock in the upper right corner of
79 the window. Illustrates overwriting the refresh callbacks to create
80 your own overlays or changes.
81
82 General API Considerations
83 All objects (such as terminals, time watchers etc.) are typical
84 reference-to-hash objects. The hash can be used to store anything you
85 like. All members starting with an underscore (such as "_ptr" or
86 "_hook") are reserved for internal uses and MUST NOT be accessed or
87 modified).
88
89 When objects are destroyed on the C++ side, the perl object hashes are
90 emptied, so its best to store related objects such as time watchers and
91 the like inside the terminal object so they get destroyed as soon as the
92 terminal is destroyed.
93
94 Argument names also often indicate the type of a parameter. Here are
95 some hints on what they mean:
96
97 $text
98 Rxvt-unicodes special way of encoding text, where one "unicode"
99 character always represents one screen cell. See row_t for a
100 discussion of this format.
101
102 $string
103 A perl text string, with an emphasis on *text*. It can store all
104 unicode characters and is to be distinguished with text encoded in a
105 specific encoding (often locale-specific) and binary data.
106
107 $octets
108 Either binary data or - more common - a text string encoded in a
109 locale-specific way.
110
111 Extension Objects
112 Very perl extension is a perl class. A separate perl object is created
113 for each terminal and each extension and passed as the first parameter
114 to hooks. So extensions can use their $self object without having to
115 think about other extensions, with the exception of methods and members
116 that begin with an underscore character "_": these are reserved for
117 internal use.
118
119 Although it isn't a "urxvt::term" object, you can call all methods of
120 the "urxvt::term" class on this object.
121
122 It has the following methods and data members:
123
124 $urxvt_term = $self->{term}
125 Returns the "urxvt::term" object associated with this instance of
126 the extension. This member *must not* be changed in any way.
127
128 $self->enable ($hook_name => $cb, [$hook_name => $cb..])
129 Dynamically enable the given hooks (named without the "on_" prefix)
130 for this extension, replacing any previous hook. This is useful when
131 you want to overwrite time-critical hooks only temporarily.
132
133 $self->disable ($hook_name[, $hook_name..])
134 Dynamically disable the given hooks.
135
136 Hooks
137 The following subroutines can be declared in extension files, and will
138 be called whenever the relevant event happens.
139
140 The first argument passed to them is an extension oject as described in
141 the in the "Extension Objects" section.
142
143 All of these hooks must return a boolean value. If it is true, then the
144 event counts as being *consumed*, and the invocation of other hooks is
145 skipped, and the relevant action might not be carried out by the C++
146 code.
147
148 *When in doubt, return a false value (preferably "()").*
149
150 on_init $term
151 Called after a new terminal object has been initialized, but before
152 windows are created or the command gets run. Most methods are unsafe
153 to call or deliver senseless data, as terminal size and other
154 characteristics have not yet been determined. You can safely query
155 and change resources, though.
156
157 on_reset $term
158 Called after the screen is "reset" for any reason, such as resizing
159 or control sequences. Here is where you can react on changes to
160 size-related variables.
161
162 on_start $term
163 Called at the very end of initialisation of a new terminal, just
164 before returning to the mainloop.
165
166 on_sel_make $term, $eventtime
167 Called whenever a selection has been made by the user, but before
168 the selection text is copied, so changes to the beginning, end or
169 type of the selection will be honored.
170
171 Returning a true value aborts selection making by urxvt, in which
172 case you have to make a selection yourself by calling
173 "$term->selection_grab".
174
175 on_sel_grab $term, $eventtime
176 Called whenever a selection has been copied, but before the
177 selection is requested from the server. The selection text can be
178 queried and changed by calling "$term->selection".
179
180 Returning a true value aborts selection grabbing. It will still be
181 hilighted.
182
183 on_sel_extend $term
184 Called whenever the user tries to extend the selection (e.g. with a
185 double click) and is either supposed to return false (normal
186 operation), or should extend the selection itelf and return true to
187 suppress the built-in processing.
188
189 See the selection example extension.
190
191 on_view_change $term, $offset
192 Called whenever the view offset changes, i..e the user or program
193 scrolls. Offset 0 means display the normal terminal, positive values
194 show this many lines of scrollback.
195
196 on_scroll_back $term, $lines, $saved
197 Called whenever lines scroll out of the terminal area into the
198 scrollback buffer. $lines is the number of lines scrolled out and
199 may be larger than the scroll back buffer or the terminal.
200
201 It is called before lines are scrolled out (so rows 0 .. min ($lines
202 - 1, $nrow - 1) represent the lines to be scrolled out). $saved is
203 the total number of lines that will be in the scrollback buffer.
204
205 on_osc_seq $term, $string
206 Called whenever the ESC ] 777 ; string ST command sequence (OSC =
207 operating system command) is processed. Cursor position and other
208 state information is up-to-date when this happens. For
209 interoperability, the string should start with the extension name
210 and a colon, to distinguish it from commands for other extensions,
211 and this might be enforced in the future.
212
213 Be careful not ever to trust (in a security sense) the data you
214 receive, as its source can not easily be controleld (e-mail content,
215 messages from other users on the same system etc.).
216
217 on_add_lines $term, $string
218 Called whenever text is about to be output, with the text as
219 argument. You can filter/change and output the text yourself by
220 returning a true value and calling "$term->scr_add_lines" yourself.
221 Please note that this might be very slow, however, as your hook is
222 called for all text being output.
223
224 on_tt_write $term, $octets
225 Called whenever some data is written to the tty/pty and can be used
226 to suppress or filter tty input.
227
228 on_line_update $term, $row
229 Called whenever a line was updated or changed. Can be used to filter
230 screen output (e.g. underline urls or other useless stuff). Only
231 lines that are being shown will be filtered, and, due to performance
232 reasons, not always immediately.
233
234 The row number is always the topmost row of the line if the line
235 spans multiple rows.
236
237 Please note that, if you change the line, then the hook might get
238 called later with the already-modified line (e.g. if unrelated parts
239 change), so you cannot just toggle rendition bits, but only set
240 them.
241
242 on_refresh_begin $term
243 Called just before the screen gets redrawn. Can be used for overlay
244 or similar effects by modify terminal contents in refresh_begin, and
245 restoring them in refresh_end. The built-in overlay and selection
246 display code is run after this hook, and takes precedence.
247
248 on_refresh_end $term
249 Called just after the screen gets redrawn. See "on_refresh_begin".
250
251 on_keyboard_command $term, $string
252 Called whenever the user presses a key combination that has a
253 "perl:string" action bound to it (see description of the keysym
254 resource in the rxvt(1) manpage).
255
256 on_focus_in $term
257 Called whenever the window gets the keyboard focus, before
258 rxvt-unicode does focus in processing.
259
260 on_focus_out $term
261 Called wheneever the window loses keyboard focus, before
262 rxvt-unicode does focus out processing.
263
264 on_key_press $term, $event, $keysym, $octets
265 on_key_release $term, $event, $keysym
266 on_button_press $term, $event
267 on_button_release $term, $event
268 on_motion_notify $term, $event
269 on_map_notify $term, $event
270 on_unmap_notify $term, $event
271 Called whenever the corresponding X event is received for the
272 terminal If the hook returns true, then the even will be ignored by
273 rxvt-unicode.
274
275 The event is a hash with most values as named by Xlib (see the
276 XEvent manpage), with the additional members "row" and "col", which
277 are the row and column under the mouse cursor.
278
279 "on_key_press" additionally receives the string rxvt-unicode would
280 output, if any, in locale-specific encoding.
281
282 subwindow.
283
284 Variables in the "urxvt" Package
285 $urxvt::TERM
286 The current terminal. This variable stores the current "urxvt::term"
287 object, whenever a callback/hook is executing.
288
289 Functions in the "urxvt" Package
290 $term = new urxvt [arg...]
291 Creates a new terminal, very similar as if you had started it with
292 "system $binfile, arg...". Croaks (and probably outputs an error
293 message) if the new instance couldn't be created. Returns "undef" if
294 the new instance didn't initialise perl, and the terminal object
295 otherwise. The "init" and "start" hooks will be called during the
296 call.
297
298 urxvt::fatal $errormessage
299 Fatally aborts execution with the given error message. Avoid at all
300 costs! The only time this is acceptable is when the terminal process
301 starts up.
302
303 urxvt::warn $string
304 Calls "rxvt_warn" with the given string which should not include a
305 newline. The module also overwrites the "warn" builtin with a
306 function that calls this function.
307
308 Using this function has the advantage that its output ends up in the
309 correct place, e.g. on stderr of the connecting urxvtc client.
310
311 $is_safe = urxvt::safe
312 Returns true when it is safe to do potentially unsafe things, such
313 as evaluating perl code specified by the user. This is true when
314 urxvt was started setuid or setgid.
315
316 $time = urxvt::NOW
317 Returns the "current time" (as per the event loop).
318
319 urxvt::CurrentTime
320 urxvt::ShiftMask, LockMask, ControlMask, Mod1Mask, Mod2Mask, Mod3Mask,
321 Mod4Mask, Mod5Mask, Button1Mask, Button2Mask, Button3Mask, Button4Mask,
322 Button5Mask, AnyModifier
323 Various constants for use in X calls and event processing.
324
325 RENDITION
326 Rendition bitsets contain information about colour, font, font styles
327 and similar information for each screen cell.
328
329 The following "macros" deal with changes in rendition sets. You should
330 never just create a bitset, you should always modify an existing one, as
331 they contain important information required for correct operation of
332 rxvt-unicode.
333
334 $rend = urxvt::DEFAULT_RSTYLE
335 Returns the default rendition, as used when the terminal is starting
336 up or being reset. Useful as a base to start when creating
337 renditions.
338
339 $rend = urxvt::OVERLAY_RSTYLE
340 Return the rendition mask used for overlays by default.
341
342 $rendbit = urxvt::RS_Bold, RS_Italic, RS_Blink, RS_RVid, RS_Uline
343 Return the bit that enabled bold, italic, blink, reverse-video and
344 underline, respectively. To enable such a style, just logically OR
345 it into the bitset.
346
347 $foreground = urxvt::GET_BASEFG $rend
348 $background = urxvt::GET_BASEBG $rend
349 Return the foreground/background colour index, respectively.
350
351 $rend = urxvt::SET_FGCOLOR ($rend, $new_colour)
352 $rend = urxvt::SET_BGCOLOR ($rend, $new_colour)
353 Replace the foreground/background colour in the rendition mask with
354 the specified one.
355
356 $value = urxvt::GET_CUSTOM ($rend)
357 Return the "custom" value: Every rendition has 5 bits for use by
358 extensions. They can be set and changed as you like and are
359 initially zero.
360
361 $rend = urxvt::SET_CUSTOM ($rend, $new_value)
362 Change the custom value.
363
364 The "urxvt::anyevent" Class
365 The sole purpose of this class is to deliver an interface to the
366 "AnyEvent" module - any module using it will work inside urxvt without
367 further work. The only exception is that you cannot wait on condition
368 variables, but non-blocking condvar use is ok. What this means is that
369 you cannot use blocking APIs, but the non-blocking variant should work.
370
371 The "urxvt::term" Class
372 $term->destroy
373 Destroy the terminal object (close the window, free resources etc.).
374
375 $isset = $term->option ($optval[, $set])
376 Returns true if the option specified by $optval is enabled, and
377 optionally change it. All option values are stored by name in the
378 hash %urxvt::OPTION. Options not enabled in this binary are not in
379 the hash.
380
381 Here is a a likely non-exhaustive list of option names, please see
382 the source file /src/optinc.h to see the actual list:
383
384 borderLess console cursorBlink cursorUnderline hold iconic insecure
385 intensityStyles jumpScroll loginShell mapAlert meta8 mouseWheelScrollPage
386 pastableTabs pointerBlank reverseVideo scrollBar scrollBar_floating
387 scrollBar_right scrollTtyKeypress scrollTtyOutput scrollWithBuffer
388 secondaryScreen secondaryScroll skipBuiltinGlyphs transparent
389 tripleclickwords utmpInhibit visualBell
390
391 $value = $term->resource ($name[, $newval])
392 Returns the current resource value associated with a given name and
393 optionally sets a new value. Setting values is most useful in the
394 "init" hook. Unset resources are returned and accepted as "undef".
395
396 The new value must be properly encoded to a suitable character
397 encoding before passing it to this method. Similarly, the returned
398 value may need to be converted from the used encoding to text.
399
400 Resource names are as defined in src/rsinc.h. Colours can be
401 specified as resource names of the form "color+<index>", e.g.
402 "color+5". (will likely change).
403
404 Please note that resource strings will currently only be freed when
405 the terminal is destroyed, so changing options frequently will eat
406 memory.
407
408 Here is a a likely non-exhaustive list of resource names, not all of
409 which are supported in every build, please see the source file
410 /src/rsinc.h to see the actual list:
411
412 answerbackstring backgroundPixmap backspace_key boldFont boldItalicFont
413 borderLess color cursorBlink cursorUnderline cutchars delete_key
414 display_name embed ext_bwidth fade font geometry hold iconName
415 imFont imLocale inputMethod insecure int_bwidth intensityStyles
416 italicFont jumpScroll lineSpace loginShell mapAlert menu meta8 modifier
417 mouseWheelScrollPage name pastableTabs path perl_eval perl_ext_1 perl_ext_2
418 perl_lib pointerBlank pointerBlankDelay preeditType print_pipe pty_fd
419 reverseVideo saveLines scrollBar scrollBar_align scrollBar_floating
420 scrollBar_right scrollBar_thickness scrollTtyKeypress scrollTtyOutput
421 scrollWithBuffer scrollstyle secondaryScreen secondaryScroll selectstyle
422 shade term_name title transparent transparent_all tripleclickwords
423 utmpInhibit visualBell
424
425 $success = $term->parse_keysym ($keysym_spec, $command_string)
426 Adds a keymap translation exactly as specified via a resource. See
427 the "keysym" resource in the rxvt(1) manpage.
428
429 $rend = $term->rstyle ([$new_rstyle])
430 Return and optionally change the current rendition. Text that is
431 output by the terminal application will use this style.
432
433 ($row, $col) = $term->screen_cur ([$row, $col])
434 Return the current coordinates of the text cursor position and
435 optionally set it (which is usually bad as applications don't expect
436 that).
437
438 ($row, $col) = $term->selection_mark ([$row, $col])
439 ($row, $col) = $term->selection_beg ([$row, $col])
440 ($row, $col) = $term->selection_end ([$row, $col])
441 Return the current values of the selection mark, begin or end
442 positions, and optionally set them to new values.
443
444 $success = $term->selection_grab ($eventtime)
445 Try to request the primary selection from the server (for example,
446 as set by the next method).
447
448 $oldtext = $term->selection ([$newtext])
449 Return the current selection text and optionally replace it by
450 $newtext.
451
452 $term->overlay_simple ($x, $y, $text)
453 Create a simple multi-line overlay box. See the next method for
454 details.
455
456 $term->overlay ($x, $y, $width, $height[, $rstyle[, $border]])
457 Create a new (empty) overlay at the given position with the given
458 width/height. $rstyle defines the initial rendition style (default:
459 "OVERLAY_RSTYLE").
460
461 If $border is 2 (default), then a decorative border will be put
462 around the box.
463
464 If either $x or $y is negative, then this is counted from the
465 right/bottom side, respectively.
466
467 This method returns an urxvt::overlay object. The overlay will be
468 visible as long as the perl object is referenced.
469
470 The methods currently supported on "urxvt::overlay" objects are:
471
472 $overlay->set ($x, $y, $text, $rend)
473 Similar to "$term->ROW_t" and "$term->ROW_r" in that it puts
474 text in rxvt-unicode's special encoding and an array of
475 rendition values at a specific position inside the overlay.
476
477 $overlay->hide
478 If visible, hide the overlay, but do not destroy it.
479
480 $overlay->show
481 If hidden, display the overlay again.
482
483 $popup = $term->popup ($event)
484 Creates a new "urxvt::popup" object that implements a popup menu.
485 The $event *must* be the event causing the menu to pop up (a button
486 event, currently).
487
488 $cellwidth = $term->strwidth ($string)
489 Returns the number of screen-cells this string would need. Correctly
490 accounts for wide and combining characters.
491
492 $octets = $term->locale_encode ($string)
493 Convert the given text string into the corresponding locale
494 encoding.
495
496 $string = $term->locale_decode ($octets)
497 Convert the given locale-encoded octets into a perl string.
498
499 $term->scr_xor_span ($beg_row, $beg_col, $end_row, $end_col[, $rstyle])
500 XORs the rendition values in the given span with the provided value
501 (default: "RS_RVid"). Useful in refresh hooks to provide effects
502 similar to the selection.
503
504 $term->scr_xor_rect ($beg_row, $beg_col, $end_row, $end_col[, $rstyle1[,
505 $rstyle2]])
506 Similar to "scr_xor_span", but xors a rectangle instead. Trailing
507 whitespace will additionally be xored with the $rstyle2, which
508 defaults to "RS_RVid | RS_Uline", which removes reverse video again
509 and underlines it instead.
510
511 $term->scr_bell
512 Ring the bell!
513
514 $term->scr_add_lines ($string)
515 Write the given text string to the screen, as if output by the
516 application running inside the terminal. It may not contain command
517 sequences (escape codes), but is free to use line feeds, carriage
518 returns and tabs. The string is a normal text string, not in
519 locale-dependent encoding.
520
521 Normally its not a good idea to use this function, as programs might
522 be confused by changes in cursor position or scrolling. Its useful
523 inside a "on_add_lines" hook, though.
524
525 $term->cmd_parse ($octets)
526 Similar to "scr_add_lines", but the argument must be in the
527 locale-specific encoding of the terminal and can contain command
528 sequences (escape codes) that will be interpreted.
529
530 $term->tt_write ($octets)
531 Write the octets given in $data to the tty (i.e. as program input).
532 To pass characters instead of octets, you should convert your
533 strings first to the locale-specific encoding using
534 "$term->locale_encode".
535
536 $old_events = $term->pty_ev_events ([$new_events])
537 Replaces the event mask of the pty watcher by the given event mask.
538 Can be used to suppress input and output handling to the pty/tty.
539 See the description of "urxvt::timer->events". Make sure to always
540 restore the previous value.
541
542 $windowid = $term->parent
543 Return the window id of the toplevel window.
544
545 $windowid = $term->vt
546 Return the window id of the terminal window.
547
548 $window_width = $term->width
549 $window_height = $term->height
550 $font_width = $term->fwidth
551 $font_height = $term->fheight
552 $font_ascent = $term->fbase
553 $terminal_rows = $term->nrow
554 $terminal_columns = $term->ncol
555 $has_focus = $term->focus
556 $is_mapped = $term->mapped
557 $max_scrollback = $term->saveLines
558 $nrow_plus_saveLines = $term->total_rows
559 $lines_in_scrollback = $term->nsaved
560 Return various integers describing terminal characteristics.
561
562 $lc_ctype = $term->locale
563 Returns the LC_CTYPE category string used by this rxvt-unicode.
564
565 $x_display = $term->display_id
566 Return the DISPLAY used by rxvt-unicode.
567
568 $modifiermask = $term->ModLevel3Mask
569 $modifiermask = $term->ModMetaMask
570 $modifiermask = $term->ModNumLockMask
571 Return the modifier masks corresponding to the "ISO Level 3 Shift"
572 (often AltGr), the meta key (often Alt) and the num lock key, if
573 applicable.
574
575 $view_start = $term->view_start ([$newvalue])
576 Returns the negative row number of the topmost line. Minimum value
577 is 0, which displays the normal terminal contents. Larger values
578 scroll this many lines into the scrollback buffer.
579
580 $term->want_refresh
581 Requests a screen refresh. At the next opportunity, rxvt-unicode
582 will compare the on-screen display with its stored representation.
583 If they differ, it redraws the differences.
584
585 Used after changing terminal contents to display them.
586
587 $text = $term->ROW_t ($row_number[, $new_text[, $start_col]])
588 Returns the text of the entire row with number $row_number. Row 0 is
589 the topmost terminal line, row "$term->$ncol-1" is the bottommost
590 terminal line. The scrollback buffer starts at line -1 and extends
591 to line "-$term->nsaved". Nothing will be returned if a nonexistent
592 line is requested.
593
594 If $new_text is specified, it will replace characters in the current
595 line, starting at column $start_col (default 0), which is useful to
596 replace only parts of a line. The font index in the rendition will
597 automatically be updated.
598
599 $text is in a special encoding: tabs and wide characters that use
600 more than one cell when displayed are padded with urxvt::NOCHAR
601 characters ("chr 65535"). Characters with combining characters and
602 other characters that do not fit into the normal tetx encoding will
603 be replaced with characters in the private use area.
604
605 You have to obey this encoding when changing text. The advantage is
606 that "substr" and similar functions work on screen cells and not on
607 characters.
608
609 The methods "$term->special_encode" and "$term->special_decode" can
610 be used to convert normal strings into this encoding and vice versa.
611
612 $rend = $term->ROW_r ($row_number[, $new_rend[, $start_col]])
613 Like "$term->ROW_t", but returns an arrayref with rendition bitsets.
614 Rendition bitsets contain information about colour, font, font
615 styles and similar information. See also "$term->ROW_t".
616
617 When setting rendition, the font mask will be ignored.
618
619 See the section on RENDITION, above.
620
621 $length = $term->ROW_l ($row_number[, $new_length])
622 Returns the number of screen cells that are in use ("the line
623 length"). Unlike the urxvt core, this returns "$term->ncol" if the
624 line is joined with the following one.
625
626 $bool = $term->is_longer ($row_number)
627 Returns true if the row is part of a multiple-row logical "line"
628 (i.e. joined with the following row), which means all characters are
629 in use and it is continued on the next row (and possibly a
630 continuation of the previous row(s)).
631
632 $line = $term->line ($row_number)
633 Create and return a new "urxvt::line" object that stores information
634 about the logical line that row $row_number is part of. It supports
635 the following methods:
636
637 $text = $line->t ([$new_text])
638 Returns or replaces the full text of the line, similar to
639 "ROW_t"
640
641 $rend = $line->r ([$new_rend])
642 Returns or replaces the full rendition array of the line,
643 similar to "ROW_r"
644
645 $length = $line->l
646 Returns the length of the line in cells, similar to "ROW_l".
647
648 $rownum = $line->beg
649 $rownum = $line->end
650 Return the row number of the first/last row of the line,
651 respectively.
652
653 $offset = $line->offset_of ($row, $col)
654 Returns the character offset of the given row|col pair within
655 the logical line.
656
657 ($row, $col) = $line->coord_of ($offset)
658 Translates a string offset into terminal coordinates again.
659
660 $text = $term->special_encode $string
661 Converts a perl string into the special encoding used by
662 rxvt-unicode, where one character corresponds to one screen cell.
663 See "$term->ROW_t" for details.
664
665 $string = $term->special_decode $text
666 Converts rxvt-unicodes text reprsentation into a perl string. See
667 "$term->ROW_t" for details.
668
669 $success = $term->grab_button ($button, $modifiermask)
670 Registers a synchronous button grab. See the XGrabButton manpage.
671
672 $success = $term->grab ($eventtime[, $sync])
673 Calls XGrabPointer and XGrabKeyboard in asynchronous (default) or
674 synchronous ($sync is true). Also remembers the grab timestampe.
675
676 $term->allow_events_async
677 Calls XAllowEvents with AsyncBoth for the most recent grab.
678
679 $term->allow_events_sync
680 Calls XAllowEvents with SyncBoth for the most recent grab.
681
682 $term->allow_events_replay
683 Calls XAllowEvents with both ReplayPointer and ReplayKeyboard for
684 the most recent grab.
685
686 $term->ungrab
687 Calls XUngrab for the most recent grab. Is called automatically on
688 evaluation errors, as it is better to lose the grab in the error
689 case as the session.
690
691 The "urxvt::popup" Class
692 The "urxvt::timer" Class
693 This class implements timer watchers/events. Time is represented as
694 a fractional number of seconds since the epoch. Example:
695
696 $term->{overlay} = $term->overlay (-1, 0, 8, 1, urxvt::OVERLAY_RSTYLE, 0);
697 $term->{timer} = urxvt::timer
698 ->new
699 ->interval (1)
700 ->cb (sub {
701 $term->{overlay}->set (0, 0,
702 sprintf "%2d:%02d:%02d", (localtime urxvt::NOW)[2,1,0]);
703 });
704
705 $timer = new urxvt::timer
706 Create a new timer object in started state. It is scheduled to
707 fire immediately.
708
709 $timer = $timer->cb (sub { my ($timer) = @_; ... })
710 Set the callback to be called when the timer triggers.
711
712 $tstamp = $timer->at
713 Return the time this watcher will fire next.
714
715 $timer = $timer->set ($tstamp)
716 Set the time the event is generated to $tstamp.
717
718 $timer = $timer->interval ($interval)
719 Normally (and when $interval is 0), the timer will automatically
720 stop after it has fired once. If $interval is non-zero, then the
721 timer is automatically rescheduled at the given intervals.
722
723 $timer = $timer->start
724 Start the timer.
725
726 $timer = $timer->start ($tstamp)
727 Set the event trigger time to $tstamp and start the timer.
728
729 $timer = $timer->stop
730 Stop the timer.
731
732 The "urxvt::iow" Class
733 This class implements io watchers/events. Example:
734
735 $term->{socket} = ...
736 $term->{iow} = urxvt::iow
737 ->new
738 ->fd (fileno $term->{socket})
739 ->events (urxvt::EVENT_READ)
740 ->start
741 ->cb (sub {
742 my ($iow, $revents) = @_;
743 # $revents must be 1 here, no need to check
744 sysread $term->{socket}, my $buf, 8192
745 or end-of-file;
746 });
747
748 $iow = new urxvt::iow
749 Create a new io watcher object in stopped state.
750
751 $iow = $iow->cb (sub { my ($iow, $reventmask) = @_; ... })
752 Set the callback to be called when io events are triggered.
753 $reventmask is a bitset as described in the "events" method.
754
755 $iow = $iow->fd ($fd)
756 Set the filedescriptor (not handle) to watch.
757
758 $iow = $iow->events ($eventmask)
759 Set the event mask to watch. The only allowed values are
760 "urxvt::EVENT_READ" and "urxvt::EVENT_WRITE", which might be
761 ORed together, or "urxvt::EVENT_NONE".
762
763 $iow = $iow->start
764 Start watching for requested events on the given handle.
765
766 $iow = $iow->stop
767 Stop watching for events on the given filehandle.
768
769 ENVIRONMENT
770 URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY
771 This variable controls the verbosity level of the perl extension.
772 Higher numbers indicate more verbose output.
773
774 == 0 - fatal messages
775 >= 3 - script loading and management
776 >=10 - all events received
777
778 AUTHOR
779 Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
780 http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode
781