[Bug 977526] Re: Manpage makes erroneous claim about BROWSER documentation

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** Also affects: sensible-utils (Debian) via
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=567250
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Manpage makes erroneous claim about BROWSER documentation

Status in sensible-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in sensible-utils package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  sensible-editor(1) (and other programs in sensible-utils) in the ‘SEE
  ALSO’ section of the manpagesays:

    Documentation  of  the  EDITOR, VISUAL, PAGER, and BROWSER variables
  in environ(7)

  But environ(7) doesn't actually make any mention at all of BROWSER, so
  looking there is of little help in determining how to set the
  preferred browser, so that mention should be removed.

  What would be useful is to document that sensible-browser by default
  tries gnome-www-browser, x-www-browser, or www-browser (depending on
  whether it's running under Gnome, X, or neither), and so the browser
  choice can be set with update-alternatives(8).

  Thanks.

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