From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:28:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 6/6] web--browse: look at the BROWSER env var
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In-Reply-To: <20101206175914.GD6272@burratino>

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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