conditional key passthrough

[Alexander Tsepkov]

I started playing with xclipboard, for the most part, sending a different
event doesn't seem hard at first glance:

- I put logic in on_user_command checking if currently active app is vim
- If it is, I emulate fake $self->key_press and $self->key_release events
(or even tt_write the special ctrl sequence)
- If not, I do the logic that's already there

The only problem I'm seeing now is that I can't get the fact that vim is
running, no matter what, even using logic of urxvt that should be able to
get me that. Here is what I tried. It also seems like urxvt never updates
$term->env() after initially reading it (which seems like a bug to me, it's
possible that other parameters I'm reading are subject to the same bug
too). Here is what I tried:

- view $self->resource('title'), assuming it's set to the current window
title, it's not, it always seems to be set to urxvt (even though the window
title for the terminal says VIM)
- view $self->resource('term_name'), because my .vimrc overrides term, no
effect, it's always the same as one defined in .bashrc
- view $self->env()->{'DISABLE_CLIPBOARD'} and launch vim with
"DISABLE_CLIPBOARD=1 vim", that ENV var is never visible from urxvt, only
ones defined in .bashrc are
- view if env is getting updated at all: $self->env()->{'PWD'}, initial
$PWD is correct, but it never changes after, so my suspicion that urxvt
isn't reading env updates is correct

 So the bug seems to be:
urxvt seems to ignore any updates to the environment that weren't already
there at the time it was loaded.

Also, if there is a better way to detect current environment/app, please
let me know, thanks.

version info:

rxvt-unicode (urxvt) v9.19 - released: 2013-10-27
options:
perl,xft,styles,combining,blink,iso14755,unicode3,encodings=eu+vn+jp+jp-ext+kr+zh+zh-ext,fade,transparent,tint,pixbuf,XIM,frills,selectionscrolling,wheel,slipwheel,smart-resize,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,scrollbars=plain+rxvt+NeXT+xterm


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Alexander Tsepkov <atsepkov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm trying to use the same copy/paste keys for both, the terminal and vim.
> Effectively I want the terminal to be able to detect which one is more
> appropriate given the situation (vim window on foreground) rather than me
> trying to remember which combo to use. The terminal has advantage that I
> can use it with any app. However, vim's internal copy-paste offers more
> flexibility (ability to ignore line numbers, ability to auto-switch to
> normal/insert mode as needed), so I would like to use vim's copy/paste
> (which I already mapped) when vim is active.
>
> I can have vim set the title of urxvt, and since urxvt already uses
> xclipboard perl script to manipulate copy/paste, maybe even have the script
> auto-detect that the current app is vim and cancel, passing through the key
> sequence to vim. Is this doable? If not, can I do something else, like send
> '"*y' (yank to system clipboard) sequence to vim upon copy shortcut if the
> active app is vim and '"*p' (paste from system clipboard) on paste shortcut?
>
> Thanks
>
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