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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

On 6 April 2014 23:21, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 07/04/2014 07:52, Henner Zeller a écrit :
>> On 1 April 2014 15:33, José Eduardo S. C. Xavier
>> <josescxavier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I thought it need to be on the main repo to get merged. I'll test it and
>>> report.
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-04-01 23:31 GMT+01:00 José Eduardo S. C. Xavier
>>> <josescxavier@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> Hi :)
>>>> That is a really nice feature. Can you add it to the bzr repo?
>>
>> There was some discussion how to improve it earlier in the thread, but
>> I got busy with actually making a board with KiCad (
>> https://github.com/hzeller/bumps ) the last couple of free-time slots,
>> so that I haven't come to this change yet. I plan to make it a bit
>> nicer by actually registering a hot key (let's call that hot-key
>> 'Return' :) ) which then does the
>> whatever-the-left-mouse-button-would-finish business.
>> So it will not be much change, but I need to get around doing it.
>>
>> (having said that: this patch should work perfectly fine if you patch
>> it in your code - I am using it all the time)
>>
>
> Since bzr 4780, I added 2 new user definable hotkeys (  Ret and End ) to
> simulate Single Left Click and Double Left Click.

Ah, cool, so I can abandon the patch, as the functionality is now already there.
Thanks JP!

>
> Although the proposed patch works, it is not good because all hot keys
> should be user definable in Kicad.
>
> And when definable, they also appear in hot key list ( hotkey ? command
> to show this list)
>
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
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