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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Related to my previous mail, as it would add an option or two - Wayne 
suggested, and I agree, that the eeschema options dialog is getting 
stuffed. I suggested that I kind of wanted to rework the options system 
as a whole, but that's a big project, and organizing them has to come 
first anyway.

I can easily rearrange them, into multiple tabs; it shouldn't take more 
than an hour or so - nice quick change. How's this for a proposed tree 
of options? Each page will then be subdivided into simple groups of 
three or four options.

- General
    - Undo and Save
        - Auto-save time interval
        - Maximum undo items
    - Interface
        - Center and warp cursor on zoom
        - Use middle mouse button to pan
        - Limit panning to scroll size
        - Pan while moving object
    - Component management
        - Use wildcards in component chooser (see previous RFC ;)
- Display
    - Show page limits
    - Grid size
    - Bus thickness
    - Line thickness
    - Part ID notation
- Editing
    - Repeat items
        - Horizontal pitch of repeated items
        - Vertical pitch of repeated items
        - Increment of repeated labels
    - Field autoplacement
        - Automatically place component fields
        - Allow field autoplace to change justification
        - Always align autoplaced fields to the 50 mil grid
- Default field names

- REMOVED as they already exist elsewhere
    - Show hidden pins (on toolbar)
    - Measurement units (on toolbar)
    - Show grid (on toolbar)
    - Restrict buses and wires to H and V orientation


--
Chris