Joey, any thoughts? On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:32:14PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Package: debianutils > Version: 2.11.2 > > sensible-browser does not appear to handle the BROWSER variable > correctly :-( > > For example, with Eric Raymond's example: > > BROWSER='mozilla -raise -remote "openURL(%s,new-window)":links' > > because the command will be split and not handed to /bin/sh, mozilla > will receive the arguments (C syntax): > > argv[0] = "-raise" > argv[1] = "-remote" > argv[2] = "\"openURL(http://www.blah.org/,new-window)\"" > argv[3] = NULL > > Unfortunately, the embedded quotes in argv[2] cause mozilla to fail. > > My suggested solution to this is to replace sensible-browser with an > appropriate modification of David Wheeler's browse script, along with > his "Secure BROWSER" modification of Eric Raymond's BROWSER variable, > all available from http://www.dwheeler.com/browse/, with BROWSE under > a DFSG license, but the specs not yet. > > Julian
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