Comment Re:Terminals with URL recognition? (Score 1) 328
You really want more than just URL recognition, though I'll concede that URL's get the most attention from my right-button-reflex..
Many moons ago, OctobrX was complaining about having a hard time getting something called "dingus" rxvt compiled for his system, so he could right click on url's .. I took a stab at it and was able to get him going, and then I decided to check it out for myself and see if it was just superfluous fluff or actually something cool..
the basic way it works is to use regex patterns for what to highlight, and then you can fine-tune from there with what color gets used, which click actually performs an action (possibly with a modifier key), and a shell command to run, either in the background or redirecting its output back to the running terminal. (there are a few other details I've glossed over since the implementation has fallen by the wayside)
within minutes I was pretty much hooked, after a few weeks/months went by of using it I could no longer handle a "dead" terminal interface for more than a few minutes, and since then I've been locally porting up the changes from the original into newer debian rxvt sources as they come out.
nowadays I've been feeling the pain of no UTF8 support in rxvt and periodically go scanning around for a new standard xterm replacement, but nothing I've come across yet has satisfied.
I might even give up the "active-tags" style functionality for an xterm replacement that sports decent speed, utf8, and allows for arbitrary key rebinding with X resources or somesuch, but that day has not yet come for me..
if you wanna learn more about what I described above just do some google-digging for "dingus", "active-tags", and maybe toss in Nat Friedman's name, I'm sure there's still references out there.
Many moons ago, OctobrX was complaining about having a hard time getting something called "dingus" rxvt compiled for his system, so he could right click on url's
the basic way it works is to use regex patterns for what to highlight, and then you can fine-tune from there with what color gets used, which click actually performs an action (possibly with a modifier key), and a shell command to run, either in the background or redirecting its output back to the running terminal. (there are a few other details I've glossed over since the implementation has fallen by the wayside)
within minutes I was pretty much hooked, after a few weeks/months went by of using it I could no longer handle a "dead" terminal interface for more than a few minutes, and since then I've been locally porting up the changes from the original into newer debian rxvt sources as they come out.
nowadays I've been feeling the pain of no UTF8 support in rxvt and periodically go scanning around for a new standard xterm replacement, but nothing I've come across yet has satisfied.
I might even give up the "active-tags" style functionality for an xterm replacement that sports decent speed, utf8, and allows for arbitrary key rebinding with X resources or somesuch, but that day has not yet come for me..
if you wanna learn more about what I described above just do some google-digging for "dingus", "active-tags", and maybe toss in Nat Friedman's name, I'm sure there's still references out there.
