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[Dino Ghilardi <dino.ghilardi@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi everybody,

I had to edit a lot of components in a schematic and doing it one-by-one 
was a tedious task without a chance to copy a field
(as footprint) to many components in a single operation.

To make this task easier I've made a new tool that I'm using now. It 
makes easier to select a particular group of similar
components and copy a field from one to others. Here are some features 
implemented:

-Shows the components in a 'spreadsheet-like' grid.
-Can filter basing on one or more field values using a 'column filter'
-It uses also regular expressions on fields to have maximum flexibility.
-It has some 'easy' buttons to make easy to use the tool also for who 
does not know the regular expressions syntax.
-Selecting a component on the schematic highlights the line for that 
component in the grid.
-Selecting a component in the grid moves the cursor to the component in 
the schematic.
-Columns can be moved and hidden.
-Changes can be undone using the 'undo' function in the schematic frame

A video (no audio) of this tool is available at:
https://youtu.be/QCMddxkKe8k

If it makes sense, I can start to 'beautify' the code (aka re-read all 
and check code style policy) and create a patch to send to the mailing 
list, so I'll wait to hear if it is a good idea to go on developing this 
tool or not.

Cheers,
Dino Ghilardi.