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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Seth,

Does this patch still needs to be applied?  I'm getting buried with the
patch submissions.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 09/27/2017 07:57 PM, Seth Hillbrand 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
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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