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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a thing I noticed a while ago, but resurfaced in the user mailing 
list.

In pcbnew a module has essentially a reference, a value, 
documentation/keywords, various attributes but, essentially, the primary 
key for the library is the footprint name.

Now, as I reckon, the footprint name is assigned when you do the 'new 
module' in module editor, and it get assigned as a default reference too.

The problem is: this name (IIRC the 'Li' field in the module file) it's 
more or less hidden elsewhere! While in eeschema there is the 'chip name' 
field, pcbnew as the reference and value but no footprint name...

This is really unconvenient since, using the board-as-a-source for a 
library convention you simply can't rename a footprint (you can change the 
reference but not the hidden footprint name, used as a key for the 
library).

Any ideas on how to handle this? Editing the file at hand doesn't seem a 
very user-friendly method:D

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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