[GRASS-dev] GUI -> change working directory - what should this action do?

[Vaclav Petras]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 5:32 PM Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:

> hi,
>
> today, I saw for the first time ;-) in the GUI:
>

...and there might be more :-)


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> Settings → GRASS working environment → Change working directory.
>
> what should this action do?


Call os.chdir(), Python equivalent of unix cd, i.e., change current working
directory. Is this something outlandish on Windows? Try also cd command in
Console.


> has this ever be tested in winGRASS?


Tested and used at least in classrooms.


> how could this be tested?
>

Any module with import, export, read, or save file will use the current
working directory when a filename, but no (or relative) path is specified.

Vaclav


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