[Bug 1624022] Re: Alias 'browse' to sensible-browser

[Iain Lane]

the "kbd" package has a binary called /bin/open - it would not be very
awesome to shadow that

xdg-open is probably better though, since it (AFAIK) falls back to
sensible-browser if necessary like in a console, but uses more modern
methods to select the program otherwise

& I think it would be best if any solution were implemented in Debian as
well, to both get wider adoption and help prevent any hiccups if a
future package takes over the generic name that is chosen

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Title:
  Alias 'browse' to sensible-browser

Status in sensible-utils package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The 'sensible-browser' command is very useful, but it's a bit unwieldy
  to use everywhere in docs. How about aliasing the simple 'browse' to
  sensible-browser, so I can recommend things like:

    sudo apt install foo; browse http://locahost:2022/

  That would be crisp clean and friendly for current users.

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