Tyler Smith wrote: > > > my prompt looks like this: > > > > > > GRASS 6.4.1 (dem):~ > > > > > > > The reference to the location '(dem)' stays, even after changing to > > > another location. How do I make Grass update this? > > > > The new environment variables are stored in the > > $LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/.bashrc file (if you're using bash). But this file > > is not 'source'ed when changing mapsets. So you need to do: > > eval `g.gisenv` > > source $GISDBASE/$LOCATION_NAME/$MAPSET/.bashrc > > > > or manually reset the prompt: > > export PS1="GRASS-6.4.2 ($LOCATION_NAME) \w > " > > There is no .bashrc file in the mapset directory, so I take it I would > have to set that up for each mapset in each location?
It's created when you start a GRASS session. There's no point in creating it manually, as it will never be read, and will be overwritten the next time you start a GRASS session in that directory. Creating the .bashrc file in the mapset directory is something of a hack. The startup script sets HOME to the mapset directory so that the .bash_history file will be created there (so each mapset gets its own command history). That causes the .bashrc file file to be read from the mapset directory; the .bashrc file then restores HOME. > Manually resetting the prompt works fine, after eval 'g.gisenv`, so > that is what I'm using now. There isn't any simple way to fix this. A command such as g.mapset cannot change the environment of another process (e.g. the shell from which g.mapset was run). -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
