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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

On 25 June 2015 at 19:34, Marco Hess <marco.hess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am assuming that it is only removed from the description when it matches
> the component name?

Yes, only then.

> 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?

Exactly. if the description doesn't start with the component name, it
displays the whole description.

>
>
> 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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