From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:59:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 6/6] web--browse: look at the BROWSER env var
Message-ID: <20101206175914.GD6272@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <1291657790-3719-7-git-send-email-giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> The BROWSER environment variables is used in Debian-based systems to set
> the user-preferred browser(s).

I _thought_ BROWSER was not Debian-specific, but I cannot find any
evidence of that online.  See:

 http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/
 http://www.dwheeler.com/browse/secure_browser.html

At least xdg-open implements a variant on it, and I had assumed
apps preceding xdg-utils did, too.