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[Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

If no one has any complaints or suggestions then this patch is ready to be
included.

I can generate a git diff with commit, author etc if needed, just let me
know.

Also, I accidentally sent this to Maciej only earlier:
Simon Richter mentioned that doing a swap was a cleaner method of doing it
for a variety of reasons. It doesn't really have to be done that way, just
following his advice.

Jon

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:55 AM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 4, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Jon Neal <reportingsjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I asked about this a while back and got a little bit of feedback, I now
> have a patch for people to try.
> >
> > What this does is when you import a netlist (in GAL only though) it
> automatically spreads out all newly added footprints and it places them all
> in "selection + move" mode. So basically you import, close the import
> window, and immediately click wherever to plonk down the new footprints.
> >
> > I want to know if people like this method of importing (I think it is
> nicer than piling all of the footprints on top of each other wherever).
>
>
> YES!
>
> -a
>
>
>
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