Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>
>  > xdg-open does [open a help browser on the Emacs manual] here
>  > (basically same as gnome-open).
>
> I wonder how what happened.  What does "ls -l `which xdg-open`" tell
> you?

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13794 Jul 16 11:43 /usr/bin/xdg-open

> Or maybe there's a common database for XDG-conforming utilities?

Isn't that sort of the point?  See, for example,

<URL:http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/usage/configuring-the-system-for-point-and-click#using-gnome-3-for-point-and-click>

> Anyway, it's hardly reliable if it doesn't work on another distro
> (I've tried on Gentoo and Debian now).

Probably depends on yelp being installed.

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David Kastrup