From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 6/6] web--browse: look at the BROWSER env var
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:59:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101206175914.GD6272@burratino> (raw)
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-06 17:49 [PATCHv3 0/6] web--browse cleanup and extensions Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-06 17:49 ` [PATCHv3 1/6] web--browse: coding style Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-06 17:49 ` [PATCHv3 2/6] web--browse: split valid_tool list Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-06 17:49 ` [PATCHv3 3/6] web--browse: support opera, seamonkey and elinks Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-06 17:49 ` [PATCHv3 4/6] web--browse: better support for chromium Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-07 23:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-08 7:21 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-06 17:49 ` [PATCHv3 5/6] web--browse: use *www-browser if available Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-07 23:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-12-08 7:38 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-06 17:49 ` [PATCHv3 6/6] web--browse: look at the BROWSER env var Giuseppe Bilotta
2010-12-06 17:59 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-12-06 18:28 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
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