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The changes introduced in #931a1ccaff, that bring new features to copy/paste in pcbnew, change the behaviour of the cursor snapping when moving 
footprints:
Before you could move components by either their origin or any pad. This is a really handy feature that allows the easy alignment of differently 
pitched components without the need to constantly change the grid (And I don't seem to be the only one who enjoyed this feature: 
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/214072).


Changing line 455 of pcbnew/tools/edit_tool.cpp from
	> if ( selection.HasReferencePoint() )
to
	> if ( false && selection.HasReferencePoint() )

brings back the old behaviour (but breaks of course other things as that's just a quick hack). So I prosume it would be quite easy to re-enable this 
behaviour, maybe by adding an additional check prior to the query of selection.HasReferencePoint() to see if the cursor is currently above a movable pad.



Looking forward to discuss this issue with you guys :)

Best regards
Daniel