[GRASS5] A naive opinion on how grass *should* work

Eric G. Miller egm2 at jps.net
Fri May 3 21:41:46 EDT 2002


On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:25:19AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Eric G. Miller writes:

>  > GRASS doesn't implement it's own shell and commands are separate
>  > programs, so Readline isn't a magic bullet for argument completion.
> 
> No, I mean inside the parser, when you run a command without required
> arguments, and the parser prompts you for them.

Ahh, that'd be reasonable (provided readline support is a compile time
option).  There's already some discussion about providing the parser
more information about the inputs; something that would benefit a
readline handler.  This is all for 5.1...

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Eric G. Miller <egm2 at jps.net>



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