On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:21:22PM +0200, Hilmar Preuße wrote: > Hi Julian, > > I'm going through some old bugs.
Hi Hilmar, Thanks for this! > > I try running the command "texdoc eqnarray" and I get the error > > message: > > sh: links:lynx: not found > > > > This is because my BROWSER environment variable contains "links:lynx", > > as allowed in the specification of the BROWSER variable. > > > > So texdoc should parse this variable (and perhaps others), using the > > first one available. > > > I can still reproduce the issue and I have some comments. I used the > documentation progress20030701, which is in texlive-latex-extra-doc. > > 1. What kind of specification are you referring to? Is this a Debian > specification, if not where can I find it? Ooh, that's a good question. It seems that it was a project started by Eric Raymond, described here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/ man(1) has a description of BROWSER matching this, and bts(1) follows the same convention, as does the python webbrowser module, apparently. However, sensible-browser does not respect this, and I can't easily find any other mentions of it. Ho hum... So it looks like it never really caught on. > 2. In addition to variable browser you can set the var BROWSER_texdoc, > which specifies just one browser program. This way you can make texdoc > work w/ changing the value of BROWSER. Yes, though that is a hack ;-) I think the solution is just to ensure that BROWSER only has one executable listed! Best wishes, Julian
