World: r4wp

If you can find a way to be more specific on OSX, so that _only_ 
URLs get handled, that would be great. OTOH, xdg-open is already 
rather versatile as well (only I fear that OSX's open is even more 
featureful).

One problem with the existing implementation is that xdg-open and 
x-www-browser are searched for in the PATH, so executables with the 
same names in a PATH directory that takes precedence will yield different 
behaviour.

Andreas: yeah, file:/// will open in Finder with this pathc.

patch*.

(So it's not constrained to the browser.)

That's the same with xdg-open.

Right.

Yeah. It looks like it just calls open, which can be a bit of a hole. 
It's better for now but we need to come up with a better solution 
in the long run.

Agreed.

Hmm, why does BROWSE accept NONE?

BrianH: I don't mean to present this patch as something it's not. 
To clarify: still a hacky solution, but at least it brings the current 
behaviour to OS X.

No, agreed. It's still nowhere near as bad as the #1921 approach, 
or the last ticket that requested it. But we need to make sure to 
come up with something better in the long run.

For sure.

I might patch this NONE case unless anyone has a good reason to leave 
it in place?

(At the moment, you get usage info on stderr. The current r3 just 
segfaults on Linux.)

It's none propagation I guess. Because dealing with or ignoring nones 
is easier to do in Rebol than writing conditional code around everything 
to avoid triggering errors.

Okay, so I guess we just need to handle the NONE rather than attempting 
to browse it

The BROWSE code should explicitly do nothing if passed a NONE. It 
certainly shouldn't segfault.

If it doesn't explicitly do nothing, that's a bug.

Just return unset, I guess.

Okay, fixing now.

not R_NONE?

No, that returns none. Whatever BROWSE normally returns.

It normally returns NONE.

R_NONE

But I think the original intent was for NONE to open an empty browser. 
Can't find any references for that.

Weird. Shouldn't it return unset?

https://github.com/rebol/r3/blob/master/src/core/n-io.c#L499

Should probably rather return the URL, that would be more useful 
:)

That treatment of a none argument makes sense, Andreas. However, 
the function should return unset, like PRINT.

If we can agree on something, I'll push that the change.

BrianH: So, R_UNSET?

That's independent of the OSX open fix in any case.

Sure. And in the has-a-url case too.

So better just file a CC issue for the `browse none` crash, and we 
can discuss the desired design in there.

Yeah, maybe two pulls.

Okay, I'll pop this in a separate branch.

Marc, did you file a ticket for this? If not, I can repurpose #1921 
for this.

Win32 browse opens an empty browser for NONE.

I didn't, no.

Please don't repurpose 1921 :)

Let 1921 stay dismissed, OK.

One ticket for missing BROWSE on OSX, another one for the browse 
none crash.

https://github.com/rebol/r3/blob/master/src/os/win32/host-lib.c#L640

Will do. And I'm still revamping the REWORD ticket example code.

Well, I'll briefly write up the crash ticket.

If you could write both I'd appreciate it. I have limited R3 time 
today, I have an R2 task I have to work on.

Ok.

https://github.com/0branch/r3/commit/95e3481ffba473f9191b918dd2eb890e764ff32a

If that looks good, I can submit pull requests for both issues once 
Andreas has written up the issues?