URL highlighting in rxvt-unicode

Posted by Nico Golde in
Saturday, October 4. 2008

It seems to be possible to highlight URLs in urxvt and to open them in a browser with a mouse event similar to the terminal emulators the big desktop environments use.
This is possible via various perl extensions (see man 3 urxvtperl). I use the following in ~/.Xdefaults and make use of the settings on X start via xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults but you can also use them by executing urxvt with the -pi option.

URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher
URxvt.urlLauncher: opera
URxvt.colorUL: #86a2be

URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,matcher enables the string matcher extension and default turns on a set of default configuration values.
The mouse button to open the URL can be specified via URxvt.matcher.button: (by default it's the middle mouse button). You can also specify your own sets of regular expressions to match any string in the terminal and specify different launcher events for each of them. I didn't see this before as I switched from aterm to rxvt-unicode because aterm is not maintained upstream anymore, has quite a few bugs, urxvt has unicode support and the command line options of aterm are a subset of urxvt's

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oh yeah, this rocks! thanks a lot, that wasn't the first cool tip, keep em coming!

#1 passive reader on 2008-10-05 00:36 (Reply)

You are abusing the colorUL ressource here - it's meant to color any underline text and that doesn't only apply to the matches.

You rather want to use something like this:
URxvt.matcher.rend.0: fg8

Unfortunately I haven't completely figured out why the following doesn't work and yields a "Failed to parse rendition string" message for the RS_Uline part:
URxvt.matcher.rend.0: fg8 RS_Uline
The color part of it works, though, and that's the way one would also add a bgX color code.

#2 Gerfried Fuchs (Homepage) on 2008-11-07 16:41 (Reply)

Try this:

URxvt.matcher.rend.0: Uline Bold fg8 bg1

#3 badboy on 2009-06-15 17:17 (Reply)

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