I think this whole tab completion thing on Win is just too friggin' complicated and time-consuming for the moment. Better to get down to resolving the more serious issues first for the 6.3.0 release.
Benjamin Hamish wrote: > Benjamin: >>> I made another ugly discovery: cmd.exe's tab completion is >>> _turned off_ by default on Win >=2000 (unbelievable!). >>> It could be done by writing a registry value (sic!) into >>> the user's registry tree. >>> Should I add that to grass63.bat? > Moritz: >> Please don't. If people want tab completion, they can set it themselves. >> This is not related to GRASS. > > I agree with Moritz, maybe the user set it that way for a reason. > > But if you have a quick way of turning it on (ISTR that either the TweakUI > PowerTool or cmd.exe's context menu Properties gave you the option to turn it > on) You could leave it commented out in the .bat file, and/or add a note to > the > WinGRASS help page* about how to turn it on and link to the page that talks > about enabling it for map names**. > > * http://grass.ibiblio.org/platforms/wingrass > or is there something newer on the wiki? > > ** http://grass.ibiblio.org/download/addons.php > but that needs an update for GRASS 6? anyone using this? > > > Hamish > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- Benjamin Ducke, M.A. Archäoinformatik (Archaeoinformation Science) Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology) Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6 D 24098 Kiel Germany Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379 Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300 www.uni-kiel.de/ufg _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
