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[Marco Hess <marco.hess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am assuming that it is only removed from the description when it 
matches the component name?

i.e. If I use a different naming convention where the component name is 
not necessarily repeated in the description, this patch is a NOOP?

On 26-Jun-15 11:58, Henner Zeller wrote:
> On 25 June 2015 at 19:18, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Any chance of making it configurable? Or at least, of not being offended
> > if I throw in a patch to do that? ;)
> What do you want to make configurable ? Do you _want_ to see the
> redundant information ?
>
> > 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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