Launching in text mode should not automaticly use location/mapset from rc file

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Reported by marisn on 13 Jan 2017 07:24 UTC I am using GRASS on my box in two modes - GUI when I'm on-site and text when remote. This has shown a problem in current rc file logic:

• If location/mapset has been removed and it is provided during startup, it sill generates an error message of missing location/mapset (took some time till I understood why my batch processing is so verbose)
• If I have started with -text, subsequent runs will automatically start in text mode with last used location/mapset. If I run GRASS from menu not CLI, it is quite confusing to get thrown directly into some kind of session without choosing one. GRASS should not start if no location/mapset is specified as rc file could be already outdated. Explicit is always better than implicit. rc should be a hint not a rule, as users are not asked to "use the same location/mapset next time" when it is created.

  GRASS GIS version and provenance

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Migrated-From: https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3258

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Comment by @mlennert on 5 Apr 2017 15:12 UTC I wouldn't classify this as a defect. This was a design decision and personally, I actually like the way it works. It requires a bit of getting used to, but then it is quite nice.

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Modified by @landam on 5 May 2017 20:41 UTC

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Comment by @neteler on 16 Sep 2017 13:27 UTC Ticket retargeted after milestone closed

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Modified by @landam on 27 Feb 2018 21:29 UTC

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Modified by @neteler on 12 Jun 2018 20:48 UTC

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Comment by @wenzeslaus on 17 Sep 2018 03:32 UTC This would be a change in behavior so 8.0, but perhaps the batch processing should not lead to the rc file in home being updated and should not use the rc file. Is that the problem?