[GRASS-user] Region definition in Grass 6.1 (and 6.1 cvs)

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> > OTOH, if you don't use the region from an active display, but have a
> > distinct "current region", there should be an option to indicate this
> > on the display(s), so that the user isn't surprised when a
> > newly-created map has different bounds and/or resoltion to the map
> > they were just looking at.
> 
> Hi, if I can jump in for a second with a suggestion:
> 
> I find some of these discussions can get confusing WRT to talking about
> the multiple "regions" in use.
> 
> Proposal: we use "computational region" to talk about WIND region and
> "display region" to talk about GUI zoom.

Proposal: use "display region" to talk about GUI zoom/pan and
"computational region" to talk about non-display commands (regardless
of whether they use WIND, $WIND_OVERRIDE, or $GRASS_REGION).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>