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

[Russell Nelson]

Carl Worth writes:
 > Maybe if a display command is given a map which is entirely outside
 > the current region a useful message could be generated informing
 > the user what happened and what could be done to fix it?).

That's an excellent idea.  Tell the user "You asked for a view
entirely off the selected map.  Use d.region rast=map to move the view
onto the location of your map."

 > Then, if a particular command must have a region that it cannot
 > compute from its input, then that command could request that the user
 > specify a region and explain how to do it.

Yup, yup!

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