--- rxvt-unicode/src/perl/selection	2006/01/12 09:55:44	1.21
+++ rxvt-unicode/src/perl/selection	2006/01/12 23:11:23	1.24
@@ -9,15 +9,25 @@
    ()
 }
 
+sub on_init {
+   my ($self) = @_;
+
+   for (my $idx = 0; defined (my $res = $self->x_resource ("selection.pattern-$idx")); $idx++) {
+      no re 'eval'; # just to be sure
+      push @{ $self->{patterns} }, qr/$res/;
+   }
+
+   ()
+}
+
 # "find interetsing things"-patterns
 my @mark_patterns = (
-   qr{([[:alnum:]]+)},
-
-   # common "parentheses"
+   # common types of "parentheses"
    qr{(?:^|\s) ‘  ([^‘’]+?) ’ (?:\s|\)|$)}x,
    qr{(?:^|\s) `  ([^`']+?) ' (?:\s|\)|$)}x,
    qr{         \{ ([^{}]+?) \} }x,
    qr{         \[ ([^{}]+?) \] }x,
+   qr{         \( ([^()]+?) \) }x,
 
    # urls, just a heuristic
    qr{(
@@ -54,7 +64,7 @@
 
    my @matches;
 
-   for my $regex (@mark_patterns) {
+   for my $regex (@mark_patterns, @{ $self->{patterns} }) {
       while ($text =~ /$regex/g) {
          if ($-[1] <= $markofs and $markofs <= $+[1]) {
             my $ofs = $-[1];