I removed the dependence on htmlview in my help.fish. On Gentoo, htmlview is a dependency of fish so it always gets installed. If no $BROWSER was specified then htmlview would always be used if it existed so on Gentoo systems it was always the default "browser".
There are several problems with htmlview: for example, it does not have an up-to-date list of browsers and it makes the assumption that all browsers exist in /usr/bin. By using it as our default choice, it would always be used if it exists which would cause our help function to fail to find any browser that was not on the out-of-date list in htmlview. Adding browsers to our list would be of no help. Another problem in htmlview is that its test for whether we are in X or not is less stringent than ours so it could pick a graphical browser even when we think we are in text mode. My solution was to just get rid of using htmlview entirely. I'm raising this as a separate issue because maybe there is some logic or reason for using htmlview that I am unaware of. Since it can pick either a text browser or a graphical browser it made the help.fish code a little more complicated. If there is a good reason for using htmlview then I'd be glad to add that extra code. The "browsers" that got promoted to the front of the lists after eliminating htmlview are: www-browser, and x-www-browser. I'm not familiar with these. Are they being actively maintained? They don't cause a problem on my system because they don't exist and are therefore just skipped. The possible problem they pose is that if they exist on a system but are outdated then they could prevent our help from working. Peace, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
