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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,
In component descriptions, often the first word in the description is
a repetition of the component name. While this is generally not a
problem when reading this in a description box, if displayed in the
brief description in the tree view, this is redundant information,
taking space of more relevant information (see first attachment
picture).

This patch uses some heuristic to get rid of these and thus generally
improves the experience for these components:

https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/skip-redundant-name-repetition-in-tree.diff

See second picture for an example.

Henner.

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