On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Tyler Smith <ty...@plantarum.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm updating my Emacs grass-mode (available on MELPA, and also here: > https://bitbucket.org/tws/grass-mode.el/wiki/Home ). > > Part of the configuration requires that users tell me where their grass > binary, script and documentation files are. Since people may be using > different versions, multiple versions, pre-packaged or compiled from > source, I can't hard-code paths for this.
Right. ... > a reasonably robust way for users to find > the information is: Please better use this (works "everywhere", also on non-Linux systems): ask GRASS itself where it is - of course the startup script needs to be in the PATH: # Linux grass70 --config path /usr/local/grass-7.0.2svn # Windows C:\>grass70.bat --config path C:\OSGeo4W\apps\grass\grass-7.0 and so on. HTH, Markus _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
