[GRASS5] another command needing terminal interaction

Kirk R. Wythers kwythers at umn.edu
Wed Feb 9 18:20:17 EST 2005


Personally, I like the 'is this what you intend to do' message. More 
than once I have looked at that list and thought, " oh crap... that is 
not at all what I intended to do". Although I use it on the command 
line and not through the gui...

Just my 2 cents...

Kirk

On Feb 9, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Maybe this was already on the list that has been discussed, but I’d 
> forgotten about it. g.mremove has a ‘do you really want to do this 
> y/n’ message that causes it to hang in the tcltk GUI. There may be 
> another one or two that do the same thing. Could we just drop this 
> ‘pause to reconsider’ from these commands in exchange for a warning in 
> the description that says something along the lines of “WARNING this 
> command will delete ALL files matching the wildcard specifications!”?
>
>  Michael
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