<div dir="ltr">Hi Vaclav,<div><br></div><div>I never thought that can be confused with the default "not restricted". I wouldn't say the default is "all". The default is "Don't use any region at all". Well, maybe, they are the same thing? '*' means the entire region that the PERMANENT mapset supports by default.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We can introduce as many special characters as we want, but IMHO it's better to keep special characters to a minimum if possible and as long as we clearly convey what they mean, it should be fine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Huidae</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Vaclav Petras <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wenzeslaus@gmail.com" target="_blank">wenzeslaus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Huidae,<br><br></div>I think that the default interpretation of * is all, so * can be confused with the default for this option (all). But I don't have any suggestion of character for default region, perhaps + because is on numeric keyboard, too. Or do you think that this is not an issue since * is in GRASS used also for NULLs?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br></div>Vaclav<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:04 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:svn_grass@osgeo.org" target="_blank">svn_grass@osgeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Author: hcho<br>
Date: 2014-06-28 07:04:42 -0700 (Sat, 28 Jun 2014)<br>
New Revision: 61027<br>
<br>
Modified:<br>
grass/trunk/general/g.mlist/main.c<br>
Log:<br>
g.mlist: help cosmetics<br>
<br>
Modified: grass/trunk/general/g.mlist/main.c<br>
===================================================================<br>
--- grass/trunk/general/g.mlist/main.c 2014-06-28 13:59:27 UTC (rev 61026)<br>
+++ grass/trunk/general/g.mlist/main.c 2014-06-28 14:04:42 UTC (rev 61027)<br>
@@ -115,10 +115,9 @@<br>
opt.separator->answer = "newline";<br>
<br>
opt.region = G_define_standard_option(G_OPT_M_REGION);<br>
- opt.region->label = _("Name of saved region for map search");<br>
+ opt.region->label = _("Name of saved region for map search (default: not restricted)");<br>
opt.region->description =<br>
- _("'*' for default region; '.' for current region "<br>
- "(default: not restricted)");<br>
+ _("'.' for current region; '*' for default region");<br>
<br>
opt.output = G_define_standard_option(G_OPT_F_OUTPUT);<br>
opt.output->required = NO;<br>
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