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Clickable URLs in URxvt

Been hanging out in IRC (irssi) and not being able to easily click or grab memes linked in chat was bothering me. I did some googling and found out that if I added options to enable perl extentions to the .Xresources file and set a default browser (or xdg-open) to open links, I could now rapidly keep up with the maymays!

URxvt.perl-ext-common:      default,clipboard,url-select,keyboard-select
URxvt.url-select.launcher:  firefox
URxvt.matcher.button:       1
URxvt.url-select.underline: true
URxvt.keysym.M-u:           perl:url-select:select_next
URxvt.keysym.M-Escape:      perl:keyboard-select:activate
URxvt.keysym.M-s:           perl:keyboard-select:search