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Pasting 'required text' into terminal emulator results in '^[[200~required text~'
These characters are used for bracketed paste mode. Some terminal-based programs enable this mode so that they could distinguish pasted text from directly typed text.
For example, text editors ...
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rxvt - how to clear scrollback
If you want to clear the scroll-back by pressing Ctrl-L, add this to your ~/.Xresources
URxvt.keysym.Control-l: command:\033c
This is like running:
echo -ne '\033c'
However it outputs the text to ...
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Get Ctrl+Arrow to work under tmux+urxvt
Add this to your .Xdefaults
URxvt.keysym.Control-Up: \033[1;5A
URxvt.keysym.Control-Down: \033[1;5B
URxvt.keysym.Control-Left: \033[1;5D
URxvt.keysym.Control-Right: \033[1;5C
URxvt will now ...
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Emacs key for Home & End
These worked for me:
(global-set-key (kbd "<home>") 'beginning-of-line)
(global-set-key (kbd "<end>") 'end-of-line)
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Fixed highlighting in tmux
I have found info and solutions about it on tmux's pages:
tmux's mailing list
tmux's FAQ
Screen's terminfo description lacks italics mode and has standout mode in its place, but using the same ...
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How to configure rxvt-unicode to behave similar to gnome-terminal? (or other's from xfce/mate)
Attempt to answer own question:
Matches gnome-shell, with grey on black colors set.
Details:
RMB to launch URL (to allow regular LMB/MMB paste).
Ctrl-Shift-C/V for copy-paste.
Ctrl +/- to zoom fonts,...
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urxvt settings - reload without restarting terminal?
I created a Perl extension that reloads urxvt configuration upon recieving SIGUSR1: https://github.com/regnarg/urxvt-config-reload
Currently it supports only reloading color configuration but other ...
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Display unicode in tmux?
Would you please try the following and see if it helps?
rename .tmux.conf to something else
set LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
Clarification:
I have seen the existence of ~/.tmux.conf may cause problem so just ...
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Fixed highlighting in tmux
I run urxvt in arch linux. The op's answer did not help me. This helped me:
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/2.1/FAQ#L355-L383
search for italic and run that; then, put this in tmux config
set -g ...
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Clicking far away in vim in tmux in urxvt
So, thanks to Screwtape, I've got an answer for this. Reproduced below:
The original xterm mouse protocol only supports up to 223 columns and
lines. Later versions of the protocol used UTF-8 encoding,...
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Some unicode symbols still not displayed with urxvt or xterm
Fernando Basso's answer already helped me a lot. However, as he also pointed out, I still could not get all the glyphs to work. Especially the symbol indicating the line in airline (㏑) didn't work ...
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Some unicode symbols still not displayed with urxvt or xterm
What I do here to get the glyphs I need working on urxvt is to add more fonts in the font list:
URxvt.font: xft:Ubuntu Mono:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:hinting=true,\
xft:Source Code Pro:...
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How to disable urxvt autoscroll on output?
I see that the question was posted a year ago, but it is at the top of my search results.
I've found and using this config:
URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: false
URxvt*scrollWithBuffer: true
URxvt*...
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How to disable the bell in urxvt?
I was able to disable the bell on GNOME with the command:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences audible-bell false
In general, the PC speaker page from the ArchWiki appears to have a ...
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urxvt triple-click not selecting lines as expected
Fixed by disabling the selection Perl extension.
I was under the misapprehension that -pe "" would disable all extensions (I think I read this somewhere), but it doesn't.
In fact I'm not sure ...
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urxvt settings - reload without restarting terminal?
The following script can be used with URxvt (or any other terminal supporting XTerm OSC escape sequences) to change the color scheme on the fly. It accepts .Xresources-style definitions as input, and ...
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Fixed highlighting in tmux
Quicker way:
set -g terminal-overrides "screen.xterm-new"
Works without any further magic (and still heeds the warning in the tmux manual about the terminal type needing to be "screen" or a ...
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Set urxvt shell without chsh?
You can send zsh in as a command when launching urxvt:
urxvt -e /path/to/zsh
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Mouse wheel scrolling in less and vim using urxvt
I wrote this for a very similar question, see https://superuser.com/a/1356948/900060
Paste this in $HOME/.urxvt/ext/vtwheel (create the file if it doesn't exist):
#! perl
# Implements a scrollwheel ...
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Mouse right-click menu in RXVT
i don't know gnome-terminal menus, but urxvt have the ctrl+right click. You may need to select some text and AFAIK, those menu entries can be configured
If you are looking for copy&paste, there ...
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Pasting 'required text' into terminal emulator results in '^[[200~required text~'
This seems to work for me (though it doesn't make sense)
In my ubuntu Mate Terminal I go Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts
goto
Paste - the keys are already mapped to Shift+Ctrl+V
I select and re-enter by ...
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Pasting 'required text' into terminal emulator results in '^[[200~required text~'
There is an additional way that this problem can manifest. Readline's ~/.inputrc file can contain the following:
set enable-bracketed-paste On
This is not fixed by any of the above methods and has ...
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How can I prevent or interrupt accidental copy/paste in the terminal?
Using urxvt makes this very easy. Simply enable confirm-paste in your .Xresources.
URxvt.perl-ext-common: confirm-paste,
I think it comes with certain packages of urxvt or urxvt perls... But ...
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urxvt: Inconsistent behaviour re: unicode display
If the locale in which your window manager is running is different, that can explain the problem. That could happen if your system locale differs from the locale set in your shell initialization.
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Set urxvt shell without chsh?
You can use a check in you ~/.bashrc if it is running in (u)rxvt. And if so, replace bash with zsh:
if [[ "$TERM" == *rxvt* ]]; then
exec zsh
fi
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Rendering of unicode symbols in urxvt (height / width) vs. gnome-terminal
The different heights are expected, just like the issue that too wide symbols are replaced with a square symbol..
I've asked about this on the rxvt-unicode mailing list a while ago (Q4 2004), and ...
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Close prompt for urxvt
A perl script did the trick. I ended up with this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
sub on_wm_delete_window {
my ($self, $event) = @_;
my $CP = `ps --ppid $self->{shell_pid} -o pid= | wc -l`;
chomp $...
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How can I make a searchable shortcuts cheat sheet?
This is hard to answer, because depending on your workflow, what works for you and what works for others may be vastly different. But I'm going to go ahead and make a recommendation: If you do most ...
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URxvt - Documentation about keybindings
Oddly, urxvt(7) "should be" complete, and it points to the "latest version" at http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod but neither contains the relevant text.
For that, it ...
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How to prevent terminal from closing after command exits?
workon is a function (not a separate executable) for a reason: its job is to set something in the current shell. I don't use the tool and I don't know the details. It's irrelevant if it sets variables,...
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