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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you positive that a better fix wouldn't be to stop putting redundant 
things in component descriptions? This seems like a poor way to 
"KISS"...

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:24:33PM -0700, Henner Zeller wrote:
> 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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Chris