[GRASS-dev] Re: a better console and better diff

[Michael Barton]

A quick note. I forgot to mention that there is also command history  
as before. Press ctrl-up or ctrl-down.

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
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Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Arizona State University

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On Dec 10, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> First, thanks to all who advised me on making a diff that actually
> patches correctly (I hope).
>
> Here is a console with full autocomplete and calltips. For GRASS 6.5
>
> I've put it on auto to show how it can work, but the autocompletion
> could move to control key combinations too.
>
>
> --Type a grass command. When you get to the ".", it brings up an
> autocomplete list of relevant commands. Keep typing (or mouse up/down)
> until you find the one you want and hit return.
>
> --Press <tab> to see full calltips of command syntax for each command
> entered (one command per line please)
>
> --As you type the command arguments, hitting "=" and "," following an
> "=[string]" combination will bring up context-sensitive lists of
> relevant maps or other data sets (e.g. regions where appropriate).
>
> --You can type ctrl-space to bring up a context sensitive list of maps
> for raster, vector, etc. at any place in the command.
>
> --Pressing return on the command line will run it.
>
> This will accept shell commands (redirects and pipes don't work but
> could), grass commands without arguments (brings up the GUI dialogs),
> and grass commands with the short form arguments (r.info mymap) as
> well as full grass commands with argument=value format.
>
> ****IMPORTANT WARNING***** Turn OFF the preferences/configuration for
> default raster color tables. This is causing a bug to affect any
> command entered from this console or the existing command prompt.
>
> < 
> console_example4 
> .patch><ATT00001.txt><goutput.py><wxgui.py><ATT00002.txt>