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From: Vasilij Schneidermann <v.schneidermann@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25778@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25778: 25.1; [PATCH] Drastically simplify xdg-open check
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 09:50:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170218085025.GA607@odonien.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r32wq6at.fsf@gnu.org>

> In that case, maybe we shouldn't test $DISPLAY at all?  Why restrict
> this to X if xdg-open is already tested for availability?

To quote its man page: "xdg-open is for use inside a desktop session
only.".  If you attempt using it outside one (like, on the Linux
console), M-x browse-url fails silently.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-18  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-17 18:16 bug#25778: 25.1; [PATCH] Drastically simplify xdg-open check Vasilij Schneidermann
2017-02-17 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-17 18:55   ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2017-02-18  3:39     ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-18  3:46       ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-18  8:55         ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2017-02-19  0:31           ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-19 13:06             ` Vasilij Schneidermann
2017-02-18  7:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-02-18  8:50       ` Vasilij Schneidermann [this message]
2017-03-10  3:13 ` Paul Eggert

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