How to call default browser

[Rahul Sundaram]

Marcin Zajączkowski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a package where default browser to be used by a program should be
> defined in a Makefile. There is firefox typed by default, but it's
> always annoying when an app calls not your preferred browser.
> There can be default browser defined in Fedora, but how can I call it
> from a command line (I searched in alternatives, but without success)?

xdg-open from xdg-utils might be useful. You can include a local copy.

> Btw, there is no default *graphical* text editor. What do you think
> could be defined as that?

Gedit

Rahul