Ryan Culpepper <ry...@ccs.neu.edu> writes: > On 04/18/2013 11:35 AM, Diogo F. S. Ramos wrote: >> Looking at `collects/net/sendurl.rkt' I see that `xdg-open' is commented >> out in the `all-unix-browsers' list, although it's still a key in a case >> in `send-url/unix'. >> >> Is there a reason to not use `xdg-open'? > > It doesn't work with file: URLs that have query parts, like > > file:///path/to/racket/doc/search/index.html?q=lambda > > which is how a search from DrRacket or "raco docs" works.
OIC. That's unfortunate. I searched the web for this and found some bug reports about this but they were all unanswered. :^( But I think that it would be better if we could work around this. Using `xdg-open' seems to me the right default way to invoke the web browser. At least for a neutral library. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
