[Surfraw-devel] Browser lists and support

[Kyle Isom]

The second option seems the more sustainable route to me; it provides a
sensible default while remaining easily overridden.

Cheers,
Kyle

On 12/20/2015 02:34 PM, Jason Ryan wrote:
> In the (unlikely[0]) event that someone starts surfraw without first
> creating a
> config *and* they don't have one of the graphical browsers installed
> that are
> listed in configure.in, they will receive this error message:
> 
> /usr/bin/surfraw: line 487: http://www.google.com/search?q=foo&num=30:
> No such
> file or directory
> 
> There are a couple of ways that this could be addressed: one, continue
> to add to
> the list in configure.in, which is already reasonably long and caters to
> most
> mainstream browsers or, two, change the default conf at
> /etc/xdg/surfraw/conf
> thus:
> 
> -def   SURFRAW_graphical_browser    firefox
> +def   SURFRAW_graphical_browser    "${BROWSER:-firefox}"
> 
> Which narrows the field for those that browse outside the standard list,
> and are
> therefore probably more likely to have set the environment variable.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Happy holidays to all the raw surfers!
> 
> /J
> 
> 0. Likely enough that there is an entry on the Arch Wiki:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Surfraw#.2Fusr.2Fbin.2Fsurfraw:_line_487:_.3Curl.3E:_No_such_file_or_directory
> 
> 
> 
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