[GRASS5] gis.m does not use whole area

[Hamish]

> > can we try a grey & hatched background (black "X" diagonal lines
> > crossing) to indicate what's NULL and what's out of bounds? Or
> > alternating block pattern like GIMP uses? Or something like that.
> > This has been a confusing part of GRASS for a Long long time.
> 
> That would be nice ... the new graphical interface looks so good, that
> it is really a bit confusing... Idrisi shows new map always in window,
> which is resised according to displayed map. In GRASS this could be
> done for the default region. Would this be sollution? 

I always found the old NVIZ controls jumping around & resizing
themselves very distracting.

bonus feature: If checkered blocks are used, make their size as the
closest power of 10 to the map units. Sort of an undocumented barscale.
"cute" but useful.


Hamish