[GRASS-dev] wingrass msys term prompt cosmetics

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Tue Jan 26 08:44:50 EST 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hamish wrote:
>> > that's ~ 62 chars on a 80 char wide window!
>
> Markus:
>> Perhaps
>>
>> PS1='GRASS640> '
>
>
> is the idea to remind the user what they are using (instead
> of bug reports just saying "I'm using GRASS 6"), or to
> de-confuse those with multiple versions as the command set
> might be a bit different? (I expect that has a developer bias,
> end users will typically only run one version at a time)

I would say: both.

> I don't really object to anything less than ~15 char long,
> I'm just trying to land on the most intuitive solution.
>
> another idea:
>
> GRASS 6.4>

Perfect.

Markus


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