html and postscript viewer

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Mar 30, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:
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> On 3/30/16 9:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> /usr/bin/open is not necessarily suitable. For example, I have configure my system so that if I `open` a .html file, it opens into my text editor, because I frequently edit html files. However, if another program is trying to open a web page, then I want that web page to open in my web browser, not my text editor.
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> You are technically correct, but I suspect your use case is going to be applicable only for a small group of users who are also developers.
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It applies to any user who has changed the file association for .html files. There's no reason to inconvenience that subset of users when a solution exists.


> /usr/bin/open is the command-line interface to the LaunchServices API, which is supposed to handle all this. I am not aware of any clean way to query Safari's preferences to determine the default browser without groveling through plist files, or perhaps AppleScript.
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> (Looking on the web, I see your openbrowser script does exactly that--grinds through plist files via Perl--but that introduces an additional dependency. I'd suggest that using a system-bundled tool is almost always better. It's certainly simpler.)