Re: sensible-browser script ?

[Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu>]

>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> writes:

    > This would be useful for one of my packages xfig. The only
    > problem is that as an X program it can't just run
    > sensible-browser and be done with it.  sensible-browser can
    > either run, lynx or netscape, if it wants lynx it must run
    > an xterm, and run lynx inside that.
...

The appropriate place to make sure BROWSER is actually
sensible-browser is when it is set, not when it is used.  It can
be defined so that it is sensible for different environments, as
in BROWSER=netscape, BROWSER=lynx, BROWSER="xterm -e lynx".

Mike