The Cygwin Ports project - general discussion

Padraic | 8 Aug 2012 10:47

help with Surfraw configuration

Hi folks,

I have installed surfraw from the ports and would like some help setting 
(windows) firefox as the graphical browser.

I have set an alias and script in my .bashrc so that 'firefox' opens the 
browser in a new tab. Putting 'firefox' into the surfraw.conf in /etc 
doesn't work however.

Would anyone be able to help?

Padraic

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Yaakov (Cygwin/X | 9 Aug 2012 05:40

Re: help with Surfraw configuration

On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 09:47 +0100, Padraic wrote:
> I have installed surfraw from the ports and would like some help setting 
> (windows) firefox as the graphical browser.
> 
> I have set an alias and script in my .bashrc so that 'firefox' opens the 
> browser in a new tab. Putting 'firefox' into the surfraw.conf in /etc 
> doesn't work however.
> 
> Would anyone be able to help?

Try using 'cygstart' instead; that will use your default Windows
browser.

Yaakov

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Nicholas DiPiazza | 9 Aug 2012 05:57

Re: help with Surfraw configuration

Please see this sof question I created:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725306/bash-script-that-can-seamlessly-
call-a-windows-exe-without-having-to-call-cygpat/11725617#11725617 

By creating a link to the EXE you can often get what you want automatically.

-Nicholas 

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From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) [mailto:yselkowitz@...] 
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Subject: Re: [Cygwin-ports-general] help with Surfraw configuration

On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 09:47 +0100, Padraic wrote:
> I have installed surfraw from the ports and would like some help 
> setting
> (windows) firefox as the graphical browser.
> 
> I have set an alias and script in my .bashrc so that 'firefox' opens 
> the browser in a new tab. Putting 'firefox' into the surfraw.conf in 
> /etc doesn't work however.
> 
> Would anyone be able to help?

Try using 'cygstart' instead; that will use your default Windows browser.

Yaakov

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Yaakov (Cygwin/X | 9 Aug 2012 07:10

Re: help with Surfraw configuration

On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 22:57 -0500, Nicholas DiPiazza wrote:
> Please see this sof question I created:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11725306/bash-script-that-can-seamlessly-
> call-a-windows-exe-without-having-to-call-cygpat/11725617#11725617 
> 
> By creating a link to the EXE you can often get what you want automatically.

How is that easier than configuring 'cygstart' as surfraw's browser?
You don't need cygpath here, since we're talking about a website
address.

Yaakov
Cygwin Ports

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