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[Clemens Koller <cko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Steven!

On 2016-12-22 15:01, Strontium wrote:
> My 2c for what its worth,
> To handle what Kasper suggests, one would have two standard keys:
> "MPN" and "MANUFACTURER", or a standard field format for MPN that can 
> hold both the manufacturer and part number.
> 
> The issue with the keys isnt that they are customisable, its that they 
> are easy to type wrong/get inconsistent, you have to remember what keys 
> you are using, did you leave any out, etc, etc.

It should be easy for KiCad to browse through the libraries and designs to grab all used key names to get a dicitionary of used keys. A quite useful feature would then be to rename, map and merge the keys to create your-very-own "standard".

Regards,

Clemens