[GRASS-dev] WinGRASS curses issue

[Benjamin Ducke]

I think this whole tab completion thing on Win is just too
friggin' complicated and time-consuming for the moment.
Better to get down to resolving the more serious issues
first for the 6.3.0 release.

Benjamin

Hamish wrote:
> Benjamin:
>>> I made another ugly discovery: cmd.exe's tab completion is
>>> _turned off_ by default on Win >=2000 (unbelievable!).
>>> It could be done by writing a registry value (sic!) into
>>> the user's registry tree.
>>> Should I add that to grass63.bat?
> Moritz:
>> Please don't. If people want tab completion, they can set it themselves. 
>> This is not related to GRASS.
> 
> I agree with Moritz, maybe the user set it that way for a reason.
> 
> But if you have a quick way of turning it on (ISTR that either the TweakUI
> PowerTool or cmd.exe's context menu Properties gave you the option to turn it
> on) You could leave it commented out in the .bat file, and/or add a note to the
> WinGRASS help page* about how to turn it on and link to the page that talks
> about enabling it for map names**.
> 
> * http://grass.ibiblio.org/platforms/wingrass
>   or is there something newer on the wiki?
> 
> ** http://grass.ibiblio.org/download/addons.php
>   but that needs an update for GRASS 6? anyone using this?
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> 
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Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
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