rxvt-unicode is the successor to the familiar, but no longer
maintained, rxvt terminal emulator.
* Stores text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4). [cygwin:UCS-4]
* Uses locale-correct input, output and width: as long as your
system supports the locale, rxvt-unicode will display correctly.
* Daemon mode: one daemon can open multiple windows on multiple
displays, which improves memory usage and startup time
considerably.
* Embedded perl, for endless customization and improvement
opportunities, such as:
o Tabbed terminal support.
o Regex-driven customisable selection that can properly
select shell arguments, urls etc.
o Selection-transformation and option popup menus.
o Automatically transforming the selection once made.
o Incremental scrollback buffer search.
o Automatic URL-underlining and launching.
o Remote pastebin, digital clock, block graphics to ascii
filter and whatever you like to implement for yourself.
* Crash-free. At least I try, but rxvt-unicode certainly crashes
much less often than rxvt and its many clones, and reproducible
bugs get fixed immediately.
* Completely flicker-free.
* Re-wraps long lines instead of splitting or cutting them on
resizes.
* Full combining character support
* Multiple fonts supported at the same time: No need to choose
between nice japanese and ugly latin, or no japanese and nice
latin characters :).
* Supports Xft and core fonts in any combination.
* Can easily be embedded into other applications.
* All documentation accessible through manpages.
* Locale-independent XIM support.
* Many small improvements, such as improved and corrected terminfo,
improved secondary screen modes, italic and bold font support,
tinting and shading.
* Encapsulation of privileged operations in a separate process
(improves security). [not yet supported on cygwin]
* Optimised for local and remote connections.
This is a bug fix and feature enhancement release.
[[ compiled using gcc-4.3.4-3, g++-4.3.4-3 ]]
CHANGES (from rxvt-unicode-X-7.7-20)
===========================
o Update to latest upstream release
o Drop Thomas Wolff's cygwin-1.5-era unicode support (thanks,
Thomas!), and use cygwin-1.7's built-in unicode (thanks, Corinna!)
o Compile against cygwin-1.7.1, using g++4.
o Use (wide character enabled) libncursesw.
o Apply patch for and enable 256 color support.
o Now built with embedded perl support. Upside: tabbed windows.
Downside: requires perl.
o Remove the hide-my-console code. Instead, just use run.exe
or -- more likely -- run2.exe to launch it. The following xml
script:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<Run2Config
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="run2.xsd">
<SelfOptions>
<Arg>--display 127.0.0.1:0.0</Arg>
</SelfOptions>
<Global>
<Environment>
<Set var="TERM" value="rxvt-unicode"/>
<Set var="LC_ALL" value="en_US.UTF-8"/>
<Prepend var="PATH" value="/usr/bin"/>
</Environment>
<Target filename="/usr/bin/urxvt-X.exe" startin="~">
<Arg>-display 127.0.0.1:0.0</Arg>
<Arg>-ls</Arg>
<Arg>-e /bin/bash -!-login</Arg>
</Target>
</Global>
</Run2Config>
coupled with a shortcut with the following target:
C:\cygwin\bin\run2.exe --notty /path/to/example.xml
will do what you expect; and allow you to manipulate
environment variables like LC_ALL and the like.
Or, run the config-run2-example.sh script that comes with
run2, to configure a shortcut and xml script that will launch
rxvt-unicode if an X server is detected, or mintty if not.
o Enable libAfterImage, for support of many more graphics formats
and effects (such as alphablending of a background pixmap and
the root window background when transparency is enabled).
o Update postinstall/preremove scripts: retry creating shortcuts
in User's Start Menu if it fails in All Users.
o Install rxvt-unicode256 terminfo as well as rxvt-unicode.
Fun stuff:
================================
BoldItalic:
tput sitm ; tput bold ; echo 'hello, world!' ; tput sgr0
Italic:
tput sitm ; echo 'hello, world!' ; tput ritm
Bold:
tput bold ; echo 'hello, world!' ; tput sgr0
Gaudy Prompt:
ITb=`tput sitm`
BDb=`tput bold`
NRM=`tput sgr0`
GRN="\[\e[32m\]"
YLW="\[\e[33m\]"
PS1="\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n$itb$bdb$grn\u$...@$grn\h $ITb$YLW\w$NRM\n\$ "
gives:
GreenBoldItalicUserName @ GreenNormalMachineName YellowItalicPath
Daemon mode:
================================
Add 'run urxvtd-X -wait -q -f -o' to your ~/.startxwinrc file, and
then you can use urxvtc-X.exe for very fast startup of multiple
terminals, all served by the same daemon process. This also saves
memory...
Tabbed Windows:
================================
Launch with '-pe default,tabbed' or add the following to your
/etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt file:
URxvt.perl-ext-common:default,tabbed
256 colors:
================================
wget http://scie.nti.st/dist/256colors2.pl
./256colors2.pl
Show off unicode:
================================
wget http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt
less UTF-8-demo.txt
It's even more impressive if you install the GNU FreeFont
collection. See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-unicode-X.README.
--
Charles Wilson
volunteer rxvt-unicode-X maintainer for cygwin
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