Ben Hines wrote:
> 
> At 12:41 PM +0200 4/13/02, Martin Costabel wrote:
> >
> >1. Since siag runs under X11, the help browser should too, I think. If
> >you are in full-screen mode or running X11 from the console, it wouldn't
> >work otherwise.
> 
> Ehh, maybe. I don't get why folks want to use browsers in the
> incredibly slow OSX X11, but to each their own. :) I *certainly*
> would want it to open in omniweb.

Well, have you tried dillo? It opens faster than any quartz-based
browser I have seen. It's not as complete, of course, as OmniWeb. But
for a help browser it is largely sufficient. And lynx, of course, opens
as fast as /usr/bin/more. 
 
> btw: i noticed the OSX windowing mechanism in XFree86 was recently
> rewritten and checked into CVS. Anyone tried it? Faster? Building
> XFree seemed daunting, so  i didn't try. :)

Good to know. I am hurrying to rebuild it. Takes only two lines :-)
make World
sudo make install
(plus a couple hours of time)

> >2. Setting SIAGHELP to openurl did not work for me:
> >First of all it opened the Infamous Explorer instead of OmniWeb,
> >although I have OmniWeb as my default browser in the Sytem Preferences.
> >And then it didn't open the help file, but netscape's home page
> 
> That's an OS X bug. Nothing to do with openurl. Reset your browser
> preference to omniweb. You have to do it often, generally.

There seems to be something else here. I have now played with launch a
bit. Turns out:

launch http://www.cnn.com     opens IE
launch -l http://www.cnn.com  opens OmniWeb (set as default browser)

everytime. 

Opening a file locally always opens IE, irrespective of whether I call
it with "launch" or with "launch -l" and whether I give just the
filename or file://<filename>.

-- 
Martin

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