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

[Paulo van Breugel]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:11 AM Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 5:32 PM Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:
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>> hi,
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>> today, I saw for the first time ;-) in the GUI:
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> ...and there might be more :-)
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>> Settings → GRASS working environment → Change working directory.
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>> what should this action do?
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> 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.
>

I hadn't seen that either, thanks for pointing this out, and a very handy
feature indeed!


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>> has this ever be tested in winGRASS?
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> Tested and used at least in classrooms.
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>> how could this be tested?
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> 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.
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> Vaclav
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