[Portland-bugs] [Bug 35500] New: Default for $BROWSER under Mac OS X

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35500

           Summary: Default for $BROWSER under Mac OS X
           Product: Portland
           Version: 1.0
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Mac OS X (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: jmv16 at cornell.edu


Hi all --

xdg-open dies unhappily on OS X because $BROWSER is not set in the standard
configuration, and it can't find any browser in an expected location.

I found the following elegant solution:

setenv BROWSER open

because there is a standard OS X command for this sort of thing (passes URLs to
user's choice of webbrowser, opens documents in corresponding application) e.g.
`open http://www.apple.com/`.


Perhaps a nice default if $BROWSER is not set but on OS X (e.g. $OSTYPE =
darwin, or `uname` = Darwin) is to just pass the URL along to `open`.


-Jeff

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