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frankenputer
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 Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:23 am Post subject: [HOWTO] Copy and Paste in urxvt with custom bindings |
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Hello,
There is a default urxvt extension which allows to copy selected content into the clipboard buffer without pressing any key, it's called selection-to-clipboard.
After reading parts of the urxvtperl man page, I was amazed how easy was to paste selected text:
| Code: | sub on_sel_grab {
warn "you selected ", $_[0]->selection;
()
} |
I've been using the clipboard extension by Bert for a long time, and after reading the rest of the man page,
I figured out how to paste content from the X11 clipboard buffer which the previous example taken from the man page wasn't able to output.
Filename: pasta
| Code: | #! /usr/bin/env perl -w
# Author: Aaron Caffrey
# Website: https://github.com/wifiextender/urxvt-pasta
# License: GPLv3
# Usage: put the following lines in your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
# URxvt.perl-ext-common : selection-to-clipboard,pasta
# URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-V : perl:pasta:paste
use strict;
sub on_user_command {
my ($self, $cmd) = @_;
if ($cmd eq "pasta:paste") {
$self->selection_request (urxvt::CurrentTime, 3);
}
()
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Installation
Simply place the script in /usr/lib/urxvt/perl/ for
system-wide availability or in ~/.urxvt/ext/ for user-only availability.
You can also put it in a folder of your choice, but then you have to add this
line to your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
| Code: | # Don't type ~ or $HOME below
URxvt.perl-lib: /home/user/your/folder/ |
After installing, put the following lines in your .Xdefaults/.Xresources:
| Code: | # libs to activate, do not omit selection-to-clipboard
URxvt.perl-ext-common : selection-to-clipboard,pasta
# keyboard shortcut to trigger the lib
URxvt.keysym.Control-Shift-V : perl:pasta:paste |
Cheers
Edited on next day: tabbedex was causing a nasty bug, which was causing a copied piece of code to be executed when a new tabbedex tab was opened.
Last edited by frankenputer on Fri Jul 01, 2016 12:06 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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khayyam
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| Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:34 pm Post subject: Re: [HOWTO] Copy and Paste in urxvt with custom bindings |
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| frankenputer wrote: | | Code: | # Don't type ~ or $HOME below
URxvt.perl-lib: /home/user/your/folder/ |
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frankenputer ... you can do the following however:
| ~/.xinitrc: | | xrdb -DENV_HOME="$HOME" -load ~/.Xresources |
| ~/.Xresources: | | URxvt.perl-lib: ENV_HOME/.urxvt/perl |
best ... khay |
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