Re: [GD-Linux] opening a URL in the default browser

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Ryan C. Gordon wrote:
> Some Unix libraries and applications follow the "BROWSER" environment
> variable, in the way that "EDITOR" is generally respected as a means
> to determine the preferred text editor. From python's library 
> reference (since they describe it well enough) ...
> 
> "Under Unix, if the environment variable BROWSER exists, it is 
> interpreted to override the platform default list of browsers, as a 
> colon-separated list of browsers to try in order. When the value of a
> list part contains the string %s, then it is interpreted as a 
> literal browser command line to be used with the argument URL 
> substituted for the %s; if the part does not contain %s, it is simply
> interpreted as the name of the browser to launch."

Thanks for pointing that out!


> UT2003 does this, but if BROWSER isn't set, we use a default like 
> this:
> 
> "opera:mozilla:galeon:konqueror:netscape:xterm -e links:xterm -e 
> lynx:";

This is similar to our current approach, but with some additional
browsers like FireBird. We also had another idea: use 'which' to get the
full path to each executable and obtain its atime, to use the browser
that was used the last time.


-- 
Ignacio Castaño
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