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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Simon Schubert wrote:

> What about always (optionally) highlighting all wires of a net if the mouse 
> cursor touches a label/wire of the net?  Maybe after some delay.  In that 
> case you don't need a specific tool, you just get it directly.

I see a potential performance problem... in eeschema IIRC the netlist is not maintained on the fly but only during export (pcbnew instead has it online), so it isn't trivial to decide which part to highlight (think about complex hierarchies!)

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