On 5 Mar, 2012, at 09:38 AM, Jim Clark wrote: > On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:57 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > >> This works for me: >> >> export SAGE_BROWSER='open -a /Applications/Firefox.app' >> >> (Change this to the path to the firefox app, if necessary.) The >> documentation apparently needs to be fixed, at least as far as OS X is >> concerned. >> >> Oh, a few more things, in case people are reading this who aren't that >> familiar with the Terminal app and bash: you can give the command >> >> export SAGE_BROWSER='open -a /Applications/Firefox.app' >> >> at the shell prompt and it will have immediate effect, so you can test it >> right away. Second, if you instead change .bashrc, you should start a new >> terminal window for the changes to take effect. You can test whether it has >> done anything by typing 'export' and seeing if SAGE_BROWSER is listed with >> the appropriate setting. > > Thanks for your help, John. > > It turned out to be more complicated, trying to understand the deep mysteries > of the bash shell and how Terminal is configured on my system. In spite of > what the man page for bash says, Terminal seems to be ignoring the .bashrc > file in my home directory, and instead reads .bash_profile. I was finally > able to get Sage and notebook() to start Firefox by putting the export > SAGE_BROWSER line into .bash_profile, not .bashrc.
To clarify this, I believe that the man page says that .bash_profile is checked for a login shell, and that .bashrc is checked for a non-login, interactive shell. I'm not at a 10.6 system right now to verify that, but it is the case on 10.7, and I have my "profile/rc" set up with that assumption on both 10.6 and 10.7. Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon at Large Director Institute for the Enhancement of the Director's Income ----------- Nobody knows the trouble I've been ----------- -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
