Re: sensible-browser and sensible-image-viewer

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:05:02PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ~/bin and $PATH trick was interesting discussion.  Also urlview.
> 
> By the way, if you download my debian-reference-common package, there is
> a script called /usr/bin/debian-reference in it.  It uses script to
> determine X or console, try guessing available browsers, use $BROWSER
> environment too, and invoke sensible browser.
> 
> I know what I did was a hack based on newbiedoc which I am sure imitated
> some other program.  If you make a better script, let us know.

I think Joey Hess has recently introduced sensible-browser
and the www-browser and x-www-browser alternative that address this
problem.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>