Add BROWSER as a standard environment variable. See the BROWSER page at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER/ for discussion. --- environ.5 2001/01/24 11:36:57 1.1 +++ environ.5 2001/01/24 11:42:54 @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ .\" .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:45:30 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" Modified Sun Jul 21 21:25:26 1996 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) -.\" Modified Mon Oct 21 17:47:19 1996 by Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com) .\" Modified Wed Aug 27 20:28:58 1997 by Nicolás Lichtmaier .\" Modified Mon Sep 21 00:00:26 1998 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) +.\" Modified Wed Jan 24 06:37:24 2001 by Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com) .\" .TH ENVIRON 5 "October 21, 1996" "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME @@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ .TP .BR EDITOR / VISUAL The user's preferred utility to edit text files. +.TP +.B BROWSER +The user's preferred utility to browse URLs. May actually consist +of a sequence of colon-separated browser commands to be tried in +order until one succeeds. If a command part contains %s, the URL is +substituted there, otherwise the browser command is simply called +with the URL as its first argument. +.\" See the BROWSER project page at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER/ .PP Further names may be placed in the environment by the \fBexport\fP command and `name=value' in \fBsh\fP(1), or by the \fBsetenv\fP command