[GRASS5] another command needing terminal interaction

[Maciek Sieczka]

From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <kwythers at umn.edu>

>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...

I think the same - many times the "Do you really want to remove this?" saved 
my life. Please don't remove this functionality neither from GUI nor command 
line. May lead to disaster and heavy frustration. No apriori warning can 
replace it.

Maciek


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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