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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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

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

 > And, uh, open is something else entirely:

No, Mac OS X is something else entirely. ;-)