Bug 58029

Summary: implement BROWSER env. variable
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mikel Ward <mikel>
Component: basesystemAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 7.2CC: rvokal
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/BROWSER/index.html
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Description Mikel Ward 2002-01-06 12:34:05 UTC 
I came across a proposal at the supplied URL to implement a BROWSER 
environment variable similar in style to $PAGER or $EDITOR.

This seems like a sensible way or standardizing things (particularly on a 
system-wide basis, rather than individual settings for GNOME, KDE, and 
other applications), and I have not noticed it in Red Hat Linux.

I hope you will consider implementing this, and making necessary changes 
to ensure that $BROWSER is invoked rather than hard-coding lynx or 
Netscape (I doubt there's many hard-coded references, but haven't looked).
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-02-19 17:48:49 UTC 
We currently use htmlview.