urxvt-selection-autotransform(1) RXVT-UNICODE urxvt-selection-autotransform(1)NAME
selection-autotransform - automatically transform select text
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 "s///"
operator) that modify $_ as resources:
URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: transform
URxvt.selection-autotransform.1: transform
...
For example, the following will transform selections of the form
"filename:number", often seen in compiler messages, into "vi +$filename
$word":
URxvt.selection-autotransform.0: s/^([^:[:space:]]+):(\\d+):?$/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.
9.22 2016-02-18 urxvt-selection-autotransform(1)
