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["Thor-Arne" <lp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then I think that the delete wire needs to be fixed before splitting the 
wires at junctions.
I use the delete wire a lot, and I hate seeing it gone. But I'd like to se a 
delete that deletes wverything on the same wire.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Simon Richter
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 3:00 AM
To: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Schematic Cleanup: Split lines at 
junctions

Hi,

On 20.05.2016 00:25, Thor-Arne wrote:

> Delete wire is on the delete button. and delete segment is on the
> backspace key.

Ah, that makes (some) sense. To me, the behaviour of the delete key
looks fairly nonsensical, because it will stop at corners, but not at
junctions, while I'd expect "delete wire" to do the opposite.

This leaves me with a difficult problem though -- I need net ties to
actually generate different nets on both sides, so I need different
wires that aren't combined in order to get different netlist items, but
this makes the delete key behave differently for net ties.

> Please do NOT change the behavior of the delete buton, it is used all
> the time.

Hm, as said I don't find it that useful, because most of the time it
deletes a connection I still need, but leaves dangling segments. Would
it make sense to replace it with a "delete connection" functionality
that would never leave dangling ends?

This still means I'm going to redo this patch stack -- the structural
changes in the cleanup function still make sense IMO, but the logic is
obviously wrong then.

  Simon


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