Re: [Update REQ 6836]: pick function GEOMID

[Stuart Levy <slevy at geom.umn.edu>]

You can't get geomview to return the short g? forms of the picked objects;
however, you can get enough information from geomview to do the
translation yourself.  If you

(echo (all geometry))

the response will be a list of quoted strings, listed in order of their g?
numbers.  If you've never deleted anything (without deleting everything),
then the first is the full name for g1, the second is g2, etc.
If you *have* deleted something, then there might be gaps in the g? numbers,
and you won't be able to tell that from the (all geometry) response.

You could, a bit laboriously, check whether e.g. the 3rd item in the
list is actually g3, with
  (echo (real-id g3) "\n")
which will respond with the full name of that geomview object, or ``nil''.
If it wasn't the one you expected, try (real-id g4), and so on.
Pretty painful, I know.  You could efficiently check whether there were
any gaps by testing, if there were N items in the (all geometry) list,
whether gN matched the last entry.

Sorry.

  Stuart Levy