On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html