[GRASS-dev] wingrass msys term prompt cosmetics

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Hamish wrote:
> that's ~ 62 chars on a 80 char wide window!

Markus:

Perhaps

PS1='GRASS640> '

is the idea to remind the user what they are using (instead
of bug reports just saying "I'm using GRASS 6"), or to
de-confuse those with multiple versions as the command set
might be a bit different? (I expect that has a developer bias, end users will typically only run one version at a time)

I don't really object to anything less than ~15 char long,
I'm just trying to land on the most intuitive solution.

another idea:

GRASS 6.4>

(available command line options will not change much if at all
within maintainance releases, so why clutter things up listing
it?)

Hamish

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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hamish wrote:
> that's ~ 62 chars on a 80 char wide window!

Markus:

Perhaps

PS1='GRASS640> '

is the idea to remind the user what they are using (instead
of bug reports just saying "I'm using GRASS 6"), or to
de-confuse those with multiple versions as the command set
might be a bit different? (I expect that has a developer bias,
end users will typically only run one version at a time)

I would say: both.

I don't really object to anything less than ~15 char long,
I'm just trying to land on the most intuitive solution.

another idea:

GRASS 6.4>

Perfect.

Markus