Re: [sage-support] Overriding default browser

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Clark
On Mar 5, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > Terminal starts a login shell for each window/tab that it opens, so your > intuition needs a little polishing :-} Think of Terminal as a glorified > xterm, in that all the windows belong to one Terminal, rather than each xterm > owning one

Re: [sage-support] Overriding default browser

2012-03-05 Thread Justin C. Walker
On 5 Mar, 2012, at 13:09 PM, Jim Clark wrote: > On Mar 5, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > >> To clarify this, I believe that the man page says that .bash_profile is >> checked for a login shell, and that .bashrc is checked for a non-login, >> interactive shell. >> >> I'm not at a

Re: [sage-support] Overriding default browser

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Clark
On Mar 5, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > To clarify this, I believe that the man page says that .bash_profile is > checked for a login shell, and that .bashrc is checked for a non-login, > interactive shell. > > I'm not at a 10.6 system right now to verify that, but it is the case

Re: [sage-support] Overriding default browser

2012-03-05 Thread Justin C. Walker
On 5 Mar, 2012, at 09:38 AM, Jim Clark wrote: > On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:57 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > >> This works for me: >> >> export SAGE_BROWSER='open -a /Applications/Firefox.app' >> >> (Change this to the path to the firefox app, if necessary.) The >> documentation apparently needs to

[sage-support] Overriding default browser

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Clark
I am running Sage 4.8 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. I have been using Safari as my default browser, but I am getting discouraged because Safari crashes frequently. All of my bookmarks and ways of browsing the web are in Safari, so I want to keep Safari as my default browser, but I am switching to Firefox