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[Chris Morgan <chmorgan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Wayne Stambaugh
<stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was fixing the Pcbnew block rotate hot key when I discovered that the
> block rotate command in both Pcbnew and Eeschema (and I'm assuming the
> component and footprint library editors as well) do not behave the way I
> thought they did or should.  When a block is selected and either the
> rotate hot key or context menu is selected, the block rotates at the
> original selection point and the block command ends.  Shouldn't the
> block command continue until the user presses the left mouse key to
> actually place the rotated block?  This makes more sense to me and would
> allow you to perform more than one rotation during the block command.
> If no one objects, I'll add it to my list.
>
> Wayne
>

I seem to recall that the current rotation behavior seemed odd to me too.

Chris