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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Any chance of making it configurable? Or at least, of not being offended 
if I throw in a patch to do that? ;)

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 07:15:36PM -0700, Henner Zeller wrote:
> On 25 June 2015 at 19:09, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Are you positive that a better fix wouldn't be to stop putting redundant
> > things in component descriptions?
> 
> It would be good if that wouldn't happen, yes.
> But I can't change all the libraries that exist in the world; changing
> only the KiCAD internal libraries would probably be feasible (need to
> hack up something) and should probably be done independently.
> 
> This change helps to have KiCAD behave best in the real world.
> 
> -h
> 
> >
> > 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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