mccauley@ecn.purdue.eduwrites on Wed Jun 30 17:14:58 1993
(btw, does anyone else think that "g.manual" a little long for a
command name? 
--Darrell
Not just too long, I like g.man better because it sounds unix. A lot of
students I teach are novices to GRASS and UNIX. I think they learn faster
if things are more consistent. So how about g.rm, g.cp instead of
g.remove, g.copy, etc.? It would really be great if the horrible
``option=name1,name2'' command line arguments would replaced for
unix syntax.
Raymond Venneker - Inst. of Earth Sc., Free University Amsterdam
Raymond Venneker (venn@geo.vu.nl) writes on 30 Jun 93:
mccauley@ecn.purdue.eduwrites on Wed Jun 30 17:14:58 1993
(btw, does anyone else think that "g.manual" a little long for a
command name?
g.remove, g.copy, etc.? It would really be great if the horrible
``option=name1,name2'' command line arguments would replaced for
unix syntax.
perhaps, but the standardized interface, IMO, has been one of
the greatest improvements I've seen w.r.t. GRASS design.
Perhaps it may still need a little improvement, but I can
deal with it. (The primary goal was consistency *within* GRASS).
Maybe the author of parser can provide justification/insight.
--Darrell
mccauley@ecn.purdue.eduwrites on Wed Jun 30 17:14:58 1993
> (btw, does anyone else think that "g.manual" a little long for a
> command name?
>
> --Darrell
>
Not just too long, I like g.man better because it sounds unix. A lot of
students I teach are novices to GRASS and UNIX. I think they learn faster
if things are more consistent. So how about g.rm, g.cp instead of
g.remove, g.copy, etc.? It would really be great if the horrible
``option=name1,name2'' command line arguments would replaced for
unix syntax.
Raymond Venneker - Inst. of Earth Sc., Free University Amsterdam
Well I completely agree to this. But we allways have the old alias
command that we could use. I have include a couple of lines i our
$GISBASE/etc/GIS.sh file( inlcuded below ). This allows every grass
user to set up their personal short names. Her is what I have in
my .aliases file concerning Grass
alias r.list 'g.list type=rast'
alias r.ls 'g.list type=rast'
alias v.list 'g.list type=vect'
alias v.ls 'g.list type=vect'
alias g.rm 'g.remove'
alias g.cp 'g.copy'
Well maybe this could be standardized in some way so that is looks
the same everywhere. Or atleast have the same ideas behind. I guess
the old names have to be kept for backward compatibility.
Lars
Lars Schylberg Email: larss@fmi.kth.se
Dept. of Geodesy and Photogrammetry
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Tel. +46 8 790 86 33
S-100 44 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Fax. +46 8 790 66 10
****** part of our GIS.sh file ***********
# this line with rm alias added by Lars S. 930513 since most people
# have it this way
echo "alias rm 'rm -i'" >> $cshrc
#
# Added by Lars Schylberg, 930513 to bring all aliases into the GRASS shell
#
if [ -r $home/.aliases ]
then
cat $home/.aliases >> $cshrc
fi