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		johnnyfived on Dec 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: HNTerm – Browse Hacker News in the Termin... This is awesome, but not sure why pressing o / O on mac (catalina) doesn't open anything.

ggerganov on Dec 16, 2019 [–]

I’m just calling system() with “xdg-open” and url as argument. This is what a quick google search told me can be used for openning a browser from a C++ program. Maybe “xdg-open” is not available on Catalina. It is on Mojave I think.

ComputerGuru on Dec 16, 2019 | [–]

Use `open` instead of xdg-open on macOS.

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