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PAGER
, MAILER
, and EDITOR
?
This is the BROWSER
project page -- an effort to
promulgate a convention for expressing your browser preference to
programs which must call browsers to view URLs. Nowadays many
programs must do this; mailer user agents and on-line help systems
are just two of the most obvious application classes.
Rationale: We need to be able to specify multiple browser commands so programs obeying this convention can do the right thing in either X or console environments, trying X first. Specifying multiple commands may also be useful for people who share files like .profile across multiple systems. We need %s because some popular browsers have remote-invocation syntax that requires it. Unless %% reduces to %, it won't be possible to have a literal %s in the string.
For example, on most Linux systems a good thing to do would be:
BROWSER
in CVS on 23 Jan 2001,
and will be released in Python 2.1a2.
On 24 Jan 2001, a BROWSER
patch against the 0.9 version was sent to the
maintainers of urlview.
On 24 Jan 2001, a BROWSER
patch was sent to the maintainer of the
browser-launch code in GNU Emacs.
On 24 Jan 2001, a patch against the
environ(5) man page was sent to Andries Brouwer, the Linux man page
maintainer, adding BROWSER
to the set of documented
environment variables. Andries merged in an edited version within
hours.
On 25 Jan 2001, Pavel Roskin told me "I hope to be able to implement $BROWSER support in xpdf but I cannot promise it."
BROWSER
, but
this has not been done yet.
If you implement BROWSER
support somewhere, please let me
know for this page.
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