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[Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>]

In further testing, it appears that currently delete connection doesn't
properly undo/redo.  As the junction add/remove should function seamlessly
with undo, I'll withdraw this patch request until I can propose a fix for
the undo/redo.

-Set

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Jon-
>
> Thanks for catching that.  The delete node/delete connection follow a
> different path to deletion, so I missed them initially.  As I was doing
> this, I noticed a couple of corner cases where junctions were not properly
> added/deleted, so this fixes that issue as well.
>
> There is one remaining issue, which is that junctions along the wire are
> not deleted if they are no longer required.  But I'm holding off on adding
> this because I don't think that we want to keep the wire crossing multiple
> junctions and I'll try to lay out that proposal at a later date.
>
> Best-
> Seth
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi Seth,
>>
>> Neat feature!  I just checked this out and it does seem to work in most
>> cases.
>> There seem to be some situations where it doesn't remove junctions in my
>> existing schematics -- when I use "delete connection" it works, but when I
>> use "delete wire" it only works some of the time.  I haven't looked closely
>> at the code to see why this might be happening.
>>
>> -Jon
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> ​Hi All-
>>>
>>> Currently, when laying wire in eeschema, junctions are automatically
>>> added​ where needed.  This patch provides the reverse.  When deleting
>>> segments in eeschema, it automatically removes the junction if it is no
>>> longer needed.
>>>
>>> This should save extra clicks when re-wiring and hopefully help new
>>> Kicad users keep their schematics cleaner.
>>>
>>> Best-
>>> Seth
>>>
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