The new std.process is ready for review

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:13:01 -0500, Vladimir Panteleev  
<vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 14:08:34 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:20:51 -0500, Vladimir Panteleev  
>> <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 07:17:49 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>> 4. I would design it so that if I do browse("foo.txt") it opens  
>>>> foo.txt in the web browser.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but it  
>>>> currently seems that it will open it in the user's text editor on  
>>>> Windows.  (On POSIX systems, too, if $BROWSER isn't set.)
>>>
>>> I don't know how you would accomplish that on Windows, without  
>>> accessing the association in the OS registry for e.g. the http  
>>> protocol. Might be better to change the documentation instead.
>>
>> shell("start foo.txt");
>>
>> At least, I think this would work ;)
>
> No, start uses the same function, ShellExecute. It will open whatever is  
> associated with .txt files, a text editor probably.

Oh, I thought that was the desired behavior, I misread the above post...

-Steve