Re: [PATCHv3 6/6] web--browse: look at the BROWSER env var
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Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
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- Dec 6, 2010, 18:28 UTC
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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
IIRC, RedHat's sensible-browser equivalent, htmlview, used to use BROWSER. The package is now obsolete, though, and I'm not even sure it used BROWSER at all in its latest incarnations.
xdg-open _does_ use BROWSER though. So maybe I should clear the Debian-specificity of this patch.
-- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta