How to call default browser

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:29:36AM +0200, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> However, it is probably meant to really use a text editor and not
> whatever is associated with the file type, so xdg-open is not adequate.

Indeed if it is just to open a text editor and not to edit a file
or if it is to edit a file which hasn't a mimetype corresponding with 
text/plain, xdg-open cannot be used.

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Pat