Patch for xfrun

Joe Klemmer klemmerj at webtrek.com
Wed Mar 12 16:40:45 CET 2003


On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, James Tappin wrote:

> JK> 	FWLIW, I am always for (don't say it, Chuck!) using environment
> JK> variables for things with sane defaults.  One of my pet peeves is when
> JK> programs have calls to Netscape hard-coded in them rather than looking for
> JK> the environment variable BROWSER.
> 
> Or some kind of config file that sets a preferred browser (etc.)

	I have always likes the approach of -

1) Check command line options (not necessarily applicable here, maybe)
2) Look in the Environment
3) Look for a config file
4) Use fall-back hard coded 

	How'zat?

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