urxvt-selection-autotransform(1)                                  RXVT-UNICODE


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.

9.31                              2023-07-30  urxvt-selection-autotransform(1)