#! perl #:META:RESOURCE:%.:string:autotransform expression =head1 NAME selection-autotransform - automatically transform select text =head1 DESCRIPTION This selection allows you to do automatic transforms on a selection whenever a selection is made. It works by specifying perl snippets (most useful is a single C operator) that modify C<$_> as resources: URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: transform URxvt.selection-autotransform.1: transform ... For example, the following will transform selections of the form C, often seen in compiler messages, into C: URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^([^:[:space:]]+):(\\d+):?$/vi +$2 \\Q$1\\E\\x0d/ And this example matches the same,but replaces it with vi-commands you can paste directly into your (vi :) editor: URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^([^:[:space:]]+(\\d+):?$/:e \\Q$1\\E\\x0d:$2\\x0d/ Of course, this can be modified to suit your needs and your editor :) To expand the example above to typical perl error messages ("XXX at FILENAME line YYY."), you need a slightly more elaborate solution: URxvt.selection.pattern-0: ( at .*? line \\d+[,.]) URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^ at (.*?) line (\\d+)[,.]$/:e \\Q$1\E\\x0d:$2\\x0d/ The first line tells the selection code to treat the unchanging part of every error message as a selection pattern, and the second line transforms the message into vi commands to load the file. =cut sub msg { my ($self, $msg) = @_; my $overlay = $self->overlay (0, 0, $self->strwidth ($msg), 1); $overlay->set (0, 0, $msg); $self->{timer} = urxvt::timer->new->after (2)->cb (sub { delete $self->{timer}; undef $overlay; }); } sub on_init { my ($self) = @_; for (my $idx = 0; defined (my $res = $self->x_resource ("%.$idx")); $idx++) { $res = $self->locale_decode ($res); my $transform = eval "sub { $res }"; if ($transform) { push @{ $self->{transforms} }, $transform; } else { warn "$res: $@"; } } $self->{enabled} = 1; push @{ $self->{term}{option_popup_hook} }, sub { ("autotransform" => $self->{enabled}, sub { $self->{enabled} = shift }) }; () } sub on_sel_grab { my ($self) = @_; $self->{enabled} or return; my $text = $self->selection; local $_ = $text; for my $transform (@{ $self->{transforms} }) { $transform->(); if ($text ne $_) { $self->selection ($_); s/[\x00-\x1f\x80-\x9f]/ยท/g; $self->msg ($self->special_encode ("auto-transformed to $_")); last; } } () }