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1 =encoding utf8
2
3 =head1 NAME
4
5 @@RXVT_NAME@@perl - rxvt-unicode's embedded perl interpreter
6
7 =head1 SYNOPSIS
8
9 # create a file grab_test in $HOME:
10
11 sub on_sel_grab {
12 warn "you selected ", $_[0]->selection;
13 ()
14 }
15
16 # start a @@RXVT_NAME@@ using it:
17
18 @@RXVT_NAME@@ --perl-lib $HOME -pe grab_test
19
20 =head1 DESCRIPTION
21
22 Everytime a terminal object gets created, scripts specified via the
23 C<perl> resource are loaded and associated with it.
24
25 Scripts are compiled in a 'use strict' and 'use utf8' environment, and
26 thus must be encoded as UTF-8.
27
28 Each script will only ever be loaded once, even in @@RXVT_NAME@@d, where
29 scripts will be shared (but not enabled) for all terminals.
30
31 =head2 Prepackaged Extensions
32
33 This section describes the extensiosn delivered with this version. You can
34 find them in F<@@RXVT_LIBDIR@@/urxvt/perl/>.
35
36 You can activate them like this:
37
38 @@RXVT_NAME@@ -pe <extensionname>
39
40 =over 4
41
42 =item selection
43
44 Intelligent selection. This etxension tries to be more intelligent when the user
45 extends selections (double-click).
46
47 It also offers the following bindable event:
48
49 =over 4
50
51 =item rot13
52
53 Rot-13 the selection when activated. Used via keyboard trigger:
54
55 URxvt.keysym.C-M-r: perl:selection:rot13
56
57 =back
58
59 =item digital-clock
60
61 Displays a digital clock using the built-in overlay.
62
63 =item example-refresh-hooks
64
65 Displays a very simple digital clock in the upper right corner of the
66 window. Illustrates overwriting the refresh callbacks to create your own
67 overlays or changes.
68
69 =back
70
71 =head2 General API Considerations
72
73 All objects (such as terminals, time watchers etc.) are typical
74 reference-to-hash objects. The hash can be used to store anything you
75 like. All members starting with an underscore (such as C<_ptr> or
76 C<_hook>) are reserved for internal uses and B<MUST NOT> be accessed or
77 modified).
78
79 When objects are destroyed on the C++ side, the perl object hashes are
80 emptied, so its best to store related objects such as time watchers and
81 the like inside the terminal object so they get destroyed as soon as the
82 terminal is destroyed.
83
84 =head2 Hooks
85
86 The following subroutines can be declared in loaded scripts, and will be
87 called whenever the relevant event happens.
88
89 The first argument passed to them is an object private to each terminal
90 and extension package. You can call all C<urxvt::term> methods on it, but
91 its not a real C<urxvt::term> object. Instead, the real C<urxvt::term>
92 object that is shared between all packages is stored in the C<term>
93 member.
94
95 All of them must return a boolean value. If it is true, then the event
96 counts as being I<consumed>, and the invocation of other hooks is skipped,
97 and the relevant action might not be carried out by the C++ code.
98
99 When in doubt, return a false value (preferably C<()>).
100
101 =over 4
102
103 =item on_init $term
104
105 Called after a new terminal object has been initialized, but before
106 windows are created or the command gets run.
107
108 =item on_reset $term
109
110 Called after the screen is "reset" for any reason, such as resizing or
111 control sequences. Here is where you can react on changes to size-related
112 variables.
113
114 =item on_start $term
115
116 Called at the very end of initialisation of a new terminal, just before
117 returning to the mainloop.
118
119 =item on_sel_make $term, $eventtime
120
121 Called whenever a selection has been made by the user, but before the
122 selection text is copied, so changes to the beginning, end or type of the
123 selection will be honored.
124
125 Returning a true value aborts selection making by urxvt, in which case you
126 have to make a selection yourself by calling C<< $term->selection_grab >>.
127
128 =item on_sel_grab $term, $eventtime
129
130 Called whenever a selection has been copied, but before the selection is
131 requested from the server. The selection text can be queried and changed
132 by calling C<< $term->selection >>.
133
134 Returning a true value aborts selection grabbing. It will still be hilighted.
135
136 =item on_sel_extend $term
137
138 Called whenever the user tries to extend the selection (e.g. with a double
139 click) and is either supposed to return false (normal operation), or
140 should extend the selection itelf and return true to suppress the built-in
141 processing.
142
143 See the F<selection> example extension.
144
145 =item on_focus_in $term
146
147 Called whenever the window gets the keyboard focus, before urxvt does
148 focus in processing.
149
150 =item on_focus_out $term
151
152 Called wheneever the window loses keyboard focus, before urxvt does focus
153 out processing.
154
155 =item on_view_change $term, $offset
156
157 Called whenever the view offset changes, i..e the user or program
158 scrolls. Offset C<0> means display the normal terminal, positive values
159 show this many lines of scrollback.
160
161 =item on_scroll_back $term, $lines, $saved
162
163 Called whenever lines scroll out of the terminal area into the scrollback
164 buffer. C<$lines> is the number of lines scrolled out and may be larger
165 than the scroll back buffer or the terminal.
166
167 It is called before lines are scrolled out (so rows 0 .. min ($lines - 1,
168 $nrow - 1) represent the lines to be scrolled out). C<$saved> is the total
169 number of lines that will be in the scrollback buffer.
170
171 =item on_tty_activity $term *NYI*
172
173 Called whenever the program(s) running in the urxvt window send output.
174
175 =item on_refresh_begin $term
176
177 Called just before the screen gets redrawn. Can be used for overlay
178 or similar effects by modify terminal contents in refresh_begin, and
179 restoring them in refresh_end. The built-in overlay and selection display
180 code is run after this hook, and takes precedence.
181
182 =item on_refresh_end $term
183
184 Called just after the screen gets redrawn. See C<on_refresh_begin>.
185
186 =item on_keyboard_command $term, $string
187
188 Called whenever the user presses a key combination that has a
189 C<perl:string> action bound to it (see description of the B<keysym>
190 resource in the @@RXVT_NAME@@(1) manpage).
191
192 =back
193
194 =head2 Variables in the C<urxvt> Package
195
196 =over 4
197
198 =item $urxvt::TERM
199
200 The current terminal. Whenever a callback/Hook is bein executed, this
201 variable stores the current C<urxvt::term> object.
202
203 =back
204
205 =head2 Functions in the C<urxvt> Package
206
207 =over 4
208
209 =item urxvt::fatal $errormessage
210
211 Fatally aborts execution with the given error message. Avoid at all
212 costs! The only time this is acceptable is when the terminal process
213 starts up.
214
215 =item urxvt::warn $string
216
217 Calls C<rxvt_warn> with the given string which should not include a
218 newline. The module also overwrites the C<warn> builtin with a function
219 that calls this function.
220
221 Using this function has the advantage that its output ends up in the
222 correct place, e.g. on stderr of the connecting urxvtc client.
223
224 =item $time = urxvt::NOW
225
226 Returns the "current time" (as per the event loop).
227
228 =back
229
230 =head2 RENDITION
231
232 Rendition bitsets contain information about colour, font, font styles and
233 similar information for each screen cell.
234
235 The following "macros" deal with changes in rendition sets. You should
236 never just create a bitset, you should always modify an existing one,
237 as they contain important information required for correct operation of
238 rxvt-unicode.
239
240 =over 4
241
242 =item $rend = urxvt::DEFAULT_RSTYLE
243
244 Returns the default rendition, as used when the terminal is starting up or
245 being reset. Useful as a base to start when creating renditions.
246
247 =item $rend = urxvt::OVERLAY_RSTYLE
248
249 Return the rendition mask used for overlays by default.
250
251 =item $rendbit = urxvt::RS_Bold, RS_Italic, RS_Blink, RS_RVid, RS_Uline
252
253 Return the bit that enabled bold, italic, blink, reverse-video and
254 underline, respectively. To enable such a style, just logically OR it into
255 the bitset.
256
257 =item $foreground = urxvt::GET_BASEFG $rend
258
259 =item $background = urxvt::GET_BASEBG $rend
260
261 Return the foreground/background colour index, respectively.
262
263 =item $rend = urxvt::SET_FGCOLOR ($rend, $new_colour)
264
265 =item $rend = urxvt::SET_BGCOLOR ($rend, $new_colour)
266
267 Replace the foreground/background colour in the rendition mask with the
268 specified one.
269
270 =item $value = urxvt::GET_CUSTOM ($rend)
271
272 Return the "custom" value: Every rendition has 5 bits for use by
273 extensions. They can be set and changed as you like and are initially
274 zero.
275
276 =item $rend = urxvt::SET_CUSTOM ($rend, $new_value)
277
278 Change the custom value.
279
280 =back
281
282 =cut
283
284 package urxvt;
285
286 use strict;
287 use Scalar::Util ();
288
289 our $TERM;
290 our @HOOKNAME;
291 our $LIBDIR;
292
293 BEGIN {
294 urxvt->bootstrap;
295
296 # overwrite perl's warn
297 *CORE::GLOBAL::warn = sub {
298 my $msg = join "", @_;
299 $msg .= "\n"
300 unless $msg =~ /\n$/;
301 urxvt::warn ($msg);
302 };
303 }
304
305 my @hook_count;
306 my $verbosity = $ENV{URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY};
307
308 sub verbose {
309 my ($level, $msg) = @_;
310 warn "$msg\n" if $level <= $verbosity;
311 }
312
313 # find on_xxx subs in the package and register them
314 # as hooks
315 sub register_package($) {
316 my ($pkg) = @_;
317
318 for my $htype (0.. $#HOOKNAME) {
319 my $name = $HOOKNAME[$htype];
320
321 my $ref = $pkg->can ("on_" . lc $name)
322 or next;
323
324 $TERM->{_hook}[$htype]{$pkg} = $ref;
325 $hook_count[$htype]++
326 or set_should_invoke $htype, 1;
327 }
328 }
329
330 my $script_pkg = "script0000";
331 my %script_pkg;
332
333 # load a single script into its own package, once only
334 sub script_package($) {
335 my ($path) = @_;
336
337 $script_pkg{$path} ||= do {
338 my $pkg = "urxvt::" . ($script_pkg++);
339
340 verbose 3, "loading script '$path' into package '$pkg'";
341
342 open my $fh, "<:raw", $path
343 or die "$path: $!";
344
345 my $source = "package $pkg; use strict; use utf8;\n"
346 . "#line 1 \"$path\"\n{\n"
347 . (do { local $/; <$fh> })
348 . "\n};\n1";
349
350 eval $source or die "$path: $@";
351
352 $pkg
353 }
354 }
355
356 # called by the rxvt core
357 sub invoke {
358 local $TERM = shift;
359 my $htype = shift;
360
361 if ($htype == 0) { # INIT
362 my @dirs = ((split /:/, $TERM->resource ("perl_lib")), "$LIBDIR/perl");
363
364 for my $ext (split /:/, $TERM->resource ("perl_ext")) {
365 my @files = grep -f $_, map "$_/$ext", @dirs;
366
367 if (@files) {
368 register_package script_package $files[0];
369 } else {
370 warn "perl extension '$ext' not found in perl library search path\n";
371 }
372 }
373
374 } elsif ($htype == 1) { # DESTROY
375 if (my $hook = $TERM->{_hook}) {
376 for my $htype (0..$#$hook) {
377 $hook_count[$htype] -= scalar keys %{ $hook->[$htype] || {} }
378 or set_should_invoke $htype, 0;
379 }
380 }
381 }
382
383 my $cb = $TERM->{_hook}[$htype]
384 or return;
385
386 verbose 10, "$HOOKNAME[$htype] (" . (join ", ", $TERM, @_) . ")"
387 if $verbosity >= 10;
388
389 while (my ($pkg, $cb) = each %$cb) {
390 return 1
391 if $cb->(
392 $TERM->{$pkg} ||= do {
393 my $proxy = bless { }, urxvt::term::proxy::;
394 Scalar::Util::weaken ($proxy->{term} = $TERM);
395 $proxy
396 },
397 @_,
398 );
399 }
400
401 0
402 }
403
404 sub urxvt::term::proxy::AUTOLOAD {
405 $urxvt::term::proxy::AUTOLOAD =~ /:([^:]+)$/
406 or die "FATAL: \$AUTOLOAD '$urxvt::term::proxy::AUTOLOAD' unparsable";
407
408 eval qq{
409 sub $urxvt::term::proxy::AUTOLOAD {
410 my \$proxy = shift;
411 \$proxy->{term}->$1 (\@_)
412 }
413 1
414 } or die "FATAL: unable to compile method forwarder: $@";
415
416 goto &$urxvt::term::proxy::AUTOLOAD;
417 }
418
419 =head2 The C<urxvt::term> Class
420
421 =over 4
422
423 =item $value = $term->resource ($name[, $newval])
424
425 Returns the current resource value associated with a given name and
426 optionally sets a new value. Setting values is most useful in the C<init>
427 hook. Unset resources are returned and accepted as C<undef>.
428
429 The new value must be properly encoded to a suitable character encoding
430 before passing it to this method. Similarly, the returned value may need
431 to be converted from the used encoding to text.
432
433 Resource names are as defined in F<src/rsinc.h>. Colours can be specified
434 as resource names of the form C<< color+<index> >>, e.g. C<color+5>. (will
435 likely change).
436
437 Please note that resource strings will currently only be freed when the
438 terminal is destroyed, so changing options frequently will eat memory.
439
440 Here is a a likely non-exhaustive list of resource names, not all of which
441 are supported in every build, please see the source to see the actual
442 list:
443
444 answerbackstring backgroundPixmap backspace_key boldFont boldItalicFont
445 borderLess color cursorBlink cursorUnderline cutchars delete_key
446 display_name embed ext_bwidth fade font geometry hold iconName
447 imFont imLocale inputMethod insecure int_bwidth intensityStyles
448 italicFont jumpScroll lineSpace loginShell mapAlert menu meta8 modifier
449 mouseWheelScrollPage name pastableTabs path perl_eval perl_ext
450 perl_lib pointerBlank pointerBlankDelay preeditType print_pipe pty_fd
451 reverseVideo saveLines scrollBar scrollBar_align scrollBar_floating
452 scrollBar_right scrollBar_thickness scrollTtyKeypress scrollTtyOutput
453 scrollWithBuffer scrollstyle secondaryScreen secondaryScroll selectstyle
454 shade term_name title transparent transparent_all tripleclickwords
455 utmpInhibit visualBell
456
457 =cut
458
459 sub urxvt::term::resource($$;$) {
460 my ($self, $name) = (shift, shift);
461 unshift @_, $self, $name, ($name =~ s/\s*\+\s*(\d+)$// ? $1 : 0);
462 goto &urxvt::term::_resource;
463 }
464
465 =item ($row, $col) = $term->selection_mark ([$row, $col])
466
467 =item ($row, $col) = $term->selection_beg ([$row, $col])
468
469 =item ($row, $col) = $term->selection_end ([$row, $col])
470
471 Return the current values of the selection mark, begin or end positions,
472 and optionally set them to new values.
473
474 =item $success = $term->selection_grab ($eventtime)
475
476 Try to request the primary selection from the server (for example, as set
477 by the next method).
478
479 =item $oldtext = $term->selection ([$newtext])
480
481 Return the current selection text and optionally replace it by C<$newtext>.
482
483 #=item $term->overlay ($x, $y, $text)
484 #
485 #Create a simple multi-line overlay box. See the next method for details.
486 #
487 #=cut
488
489 sub urxvt::term::scr_overlay {
490 die;
491 my ($self, $x, $y, $text) = @_;
492
493 my @lines = split /\n/, $text;
494
495 my $w = 0;
496 for (map $self->strwidth ($_), @lines) {
497 $w = $_ if $w < $_;
498 }
499
500 $self->scr_overlay_new ($x, $y, $w, scalar @lines);
501 $self->scr_overlay_set (0, $_, $lines[$_]) for 0.. $#lines;
502 }
503
504 =item $term->overlay ($x, $y, $width, $height[, $rstyle[, $border]])
505
506 Create a new (empty) overlay at the given position with the given
507 width/height. C<$rstyle> defines the initial rendition style
508 (default: C<OVERLAY_RSTYLE>).
509
510 If C<$border> is C<2> (default), then a decorative border will be put
511 around the box.
512
513 If either C<$x> or C<$y> is negative, then this is counted from the
514 right/bottom side, respectively.
515
516 This method returns an urxvt::overlay object. The overlay will be visible
517 as long as the perl object is referenced.
518
519 The methods currently supported on C<urxvt::overlay> objects are:
520
521 =over 4
522
523 =item $overlay->set ($x, $y, $text, $rend)
524
525 Similar to C<< $term->ROW_t >> and C<< $term->ROW_r >> in that it puts
526 text in rxvt-unicode's special encoding and an array of rendition values
527 at a specific position inside the overlay.
528
529 =item $overlay->hide
530
531 If visible, hide the overlay, but do not destroy it.
532
533 =item $overlay->show
534
535 If hidden, display the overlay again.
536
537 =back
538
539 =item $cellwidth = $term->strwidth $string
540
541 Returns the number of screen-cells this string would need. Correctly
542 accounts for wide and combining characters.
543
544 =item $octets = $term->locale_encode $string
545
546 Convert the given text string into the corresponding locale encoding.
547
548 =item $string = $term->locale_decode $octets
549
550 Convert the given locale-encoded octets into a perl string.
551
552 =item $term->tt_write ($octets)
553
554 Write the octets given in C<$data> to the tty (i.e. as program input). To
555 pass characters instead of octets, you should convert your strings first
556 to the locale-specific encoding using C<< $term->locale_encode >>.
557
558 =item $nrow = $term->nrow
559
560 =item $ncol = $term->ncol
561
562 Return the number of rows/columns of the terminal window (i.e. as
563 specified by C<-geometry>, excluding any scrollback).
564
565 =item $nsaved = $term->nsaved
566
567 Returns the number of lines in the scrollback buffer.
568
569 =item $view_start = $term->view_start ([$newvalue])
570
571 Returns the negative row number of the topmost line. Minimum value is
572 C<0>, which displays the normal terminal contents. Larger values scroll
573 this many lines into the scrollback buffer.
574
575 =item $term->want_refresh
576
577 Requests a screen refresh. At the next opportunity, rxvt-unicode will
578 compare the on-screen display with its stored representation. If they
579 differ, it redraws the differences.
580
581 Used after changing terminal contents to display them.
582
583 =item $text = $term->ROW_t ($row_number[, $new_text[, $start_col]])
584
585 Returns the text of the entire row with number C<$row_number>. Row C<0>
586 is the topmost terminal line, row C<< $term->$ncol-1 >> is the bottommost
587 terminal line. The scrollback buffer starts at line C<-1> and extends to
588 line C<< -$term->nsaved >>. Nothing will be returned if a nonexistent line
589 is requested.
590
591 If C<$new_text> is specified, it will replace characters in the current
592 line, starting at column C<$start_col> (default C<0>), which is useful
593 to replace only parts of a line. The font index in the rendition will
594 automatically be updated.
595
596 C<$text> is in a special encoding: tabs and wide characters that use more
597 than one cell when displayed are padded with urxvt::NOCHAR characters
598 (C<chr 65535>). Characters with combining characters and other characters
599 that do not fit into the normal tetx encoding will be replaced with
600 characters in the private use area.
601
602 You have to obey this encoding when changing text. The advantage is
603 that C<substr> and similar functions work on screen cells and not on
604 characters.
605
606 The methods C<< $term->special_encode >> and C<< $term->special_decode >>
607 can be used to convert normal strings into this encoding and vice versa.
608
609 =item $rend = $term->ROW_r ($row_number[, $new_rend[, $start_col]])
610
611 Like C<< $term->ROW_t >>, but returns an arrayref with rendition
612 bitsets. Rendition bitsets contain information about colour, font, font
613 styles and similar information. See also C<< $term->ROW_t >>.
614
615 When setting rendition, the font mask will be ignored.
616
617 See the section on RENDITION, above.
618
619 =item $length = $term->ROW_l ($row_number[, $new_length])
620
621 Returns the number of screen cells that are in use ("the line
622 length"). Unlike the urxvt core, this returns C<< $term->ncol >> if the
623 line is joined with the following one.
624
625 =item $bool = $term->is_longer ($row_number)
626
627 Returns true if the row is part of a multiple-row logical "line" (i.e.
628 joined with the following row), which means all characters are in use
629 and it is continued on the next row (and possibly a continuation of the
630 previous row(s)).
631
632 =item $line = $term->line ($row_number)
633
634 Create and return a new C<urxvt::line> object that stores information
635 about the logical line that row C<$row_number> is part of. It supports the
636 following methods:
637
638 =over 4
639
640 =item $text = $line->t
641
642 Returns the full text of the line, similar to C<ROW_t>
643
644 =item $rend = $line->r
645
646 Returns the full rendition array of the line, similar to C<ROW_r>
647
648 =item $length = $line->l
649
650 Returns the length of the line in cells, similar to C<ROW_l>.
651
652 =item $rownum = $line->beg
653
654 =item $rownum = $line->end
655
656 Return the row number of the first/last row of the line, respectively.
657
658 =item $offset = $line->offset_of ($row, $col)
659
660 Returns the character offset of the given row|col pair within the logical
661 line.
662
663 =item ($row, $col) = $line->coord_of ($offset)
664
665 Translates a string offset into terminal coordinates again.
666
667 =back
668
669 =cut
670
671 sub urxvt::term::line {
672 my ($self, $row) = @_;
673
674 my $maxrow = $self->nrow - 1;
675
676 my ($beg, $end) = ($row, $row);
677
678 --$beg while $self->ROW_is_longer ($beg - 1);
679 ++$end while $self->ROW_is_longer ($end) && $end < $maxrow;
680
681 bless {
682 term => $self,
683 beg => $beg,
684 end => $end,
685 len => ($end - $beg) * $self->ncol + $self->ROW_l ($end),
686 }, urxvt::line::
687 }
688
689 sub urxvt::line::t {
690 my ($self) = @_;
691
692 substr +(join "", map $self->{term}->ROW_t ($_), $self->{beg} .. $self->{end}),
693 0, $self->{len}
694 }
695
696 sub urxvt::line::r {
697 my ($self) = @_;
698
699 my $rend = [
700 map @{ $self->{term}->ROW_r ($_) }, $self->{beg} .. $self->{end}
701 ];
702 $#$rend = $self->{len} - 1;
703 $rend
704 }
705
706 sub urxvt::line::beg { $_[0]{beg} }
707 sub urxvt::line::end { $_[0]{end} }
708 sub urxvt::line::l { $_[0]{len} }
709
710 sub urxvt::line::offset_of {
711 my ($self, $row, $col) = @_;
712
713 ($row - $self->{beg}) * $self->{term}->ncol + $col
714 }
715
716 sub urxvt::line::coord_of {
717 my ($self, $offset) = @_;
718
719 use integer;
720
721 (
722 $offset / $self->{term}->ncol + $self->{beg},
723 $offset % $self->{term}->ncol
724 )
725 }
726
727 =item ($row, $col) = $line->coord_of ($offset)
728 =item $text = $term->special_encode $string
729
730 Converts a perl string into the special encoding used by rxvt-unicode,
731 where one character corresponds to one screen cell. See
732 C<< $term->ROW_t >> for details.
733
734 =item $string = $term->special_decode $text
735
736 Converts rxvt-unicodes text reprsentation into a perl string. See
737 C<< $term->ROW_t >> for details.
738
739 =back
740
741 =head2 The C<urxvt::timer> Class
742
743 This class implements timer watchers/events. Time is represented as a
744 fractional number of seconds since the epoch. Example:
745
746 $term->{overlay} = $term->overlay (-1, 0, 8, 1, urxvt::OVERLAY_RSTYLE, 0);
747 $term->{timer} = urxvt::timer
748 ->new
749 ->interval (1)
750 ->cb (sub {
751 $term->{overlay}->set (0, 0,
752 sprintf "%2d:%02d:%02d", (localtime urxvt::NOW)[2,1,0]);
753 });
754
755 =over 4
756
757 =item $timer = new urxvt::timer
758
759 Create a new timer object in started state. It is scheduled to fire
760 immediately.
761
762 =item $timer = $timer->cb (sub { my ($timer) = @_; ... })
763
764 Set the callback to be called when the timer triggers.
765
766 =item $tstamp = $timer->at
767
768 Return the time this watcher will fire next.
769
770 =item $timer = $timer->set ($tstamp)
771
772 Set the time the event is generated to $tstamp.
773
774 =item $timer = $timer->interval ($interval)
775
776 Normally (and when C<$interval> is C<0>), the timer will automatically
777 stop after it has fired once. If C<$interval> is non-zero, then the timer
778 is automatically rescheduled at the given intervals.
779
780 =item $timer = $timer->start
781
782 Start the timer.
783
784 =item $timer = $timer->start ($tstamp)
785
786 Set the event trigger time to C<$tstamp> and start the timer.
787
788 =item $timer = $timer->stop
789
790 Stop the timer.
791
792 =back
793
794 =head2 The C<urxvt::iow> Class
795
796 This class implements io watchers/events. Example:
797
798 $term->{socket} = ...
799 $term->{iow} = urxvt::iow
800 ->new
801 ->fd (fileno $term->{socket})
802 ->events (1) # wait for read data
803 ->start
804 ->cb (sub {
805 my ($iow, $revents) = @_;
806 # $revents must be 1 here, no need to check
807 sysread $term->{socket}, my $buf, 8192
808 or end-of-file;
809 });
810
811
812 =over 4
813
814 =item $iow = new urxvt::iow
815
816 Create a new io watcher object in stopped state.
817
818 =item $iow = $iow->cb (sub { my ($iow, $reventmask) = @_; ... })
819
820 Set the callback to be called when io events are triggered. C<$reventmask>
821 is a bitset as described in the C<events> method.
822
823 =item $iow = $iow->fd ($fd)
824
825 Set the filedescriptor (not handle) to watch.
826
827 =item $iow = $iow->events ($eventmask)
828
829 Set the event mask to watch. Bit #0 (value C<1>) enables watching for read
830 data, Bit #1 (value C<2>) enables watching for write data.
831
832 =item $iow = $iow->start
833
834 Start watching for requested events on the given handle.
835
836 =item $iow = $iow->stop
837
838 Stop watching for events on the given filehandle.
839
840 =back
841
842 =head1 ENVIRONMENT
843
844 =head2 URXVT_PERL_VERBOSITY
845
846 This variable controls the verbosity level of the perl extension. Higher
847 numbers indicate more verbose output.
848
849 =over 4
850
851 =item 0 - only fatal messages
852
853 =item 3 - script loading and management
854
855 =item 10 - all events received
856
857 =back
858
859 =head1 AUTHOR
860
861 Marc Lehmann <pcg@goof.com>
862 http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode
863
864 =cut
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