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[Marcos Chaparro <nitrousnrg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, I've been waiting fot this patch to happen, I can't get used to the
clunky 'u' shortcut to delete a track.


Marcos

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 1:37 PM, John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Apparently those patches don't apply because the diff context lines
> have a line of a different non-mainline patch in them (from the rotate
> CCW patch).
>
> Hopefully, these will apply to the current master.
>
> On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 9:23 PM, John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > These patches implement deletion of whole tracks (actually whole
> > connections, it won't span an unrouted gap).
> >
> > Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1517213
> >
> > This in in two parts:
> >
> > * Expand the current connection/track/net selection to act on multiple
> > selections, not just the first item in the selection list and refactor
> > the core of the traversal code in each case.
> > * Register the pre-existing "remove alternate" tool action, add a
> > concept of "delete flags" to COMMON_TOOLS, and when triggered, use the
> > flag to conditionally select whole tracks to delete.
> >
> > The idea of the flags is to allow flexible mappings of modified delete
> > actions, in much the same way as modifier keys, but without having to
> > commit to a hardcoded key for each flag, so the mappings can be more
> > eaisly user defined.
> >
> > This patch also reverses the mappings of the delete and backspace
> > keys, so that backspace is "normal remove" and "delete" is "remove
> > alternate". This keeps the mapping the same between legacy and GAL, as
> > per the LP issue. Other than tracks, this won't change anything else,
> > as there is as yet no other effect to alt remove, which wasn't used
> > until now.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
>
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