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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,

Are you thinking about when someone is editing the schematic later in
eeschema, or when someone exports to a PDF or prints it?
Both concerns have been raised and I think are valid.
I like the idea of some kind of mouseover info, or showing the contents in
the message panel (that one is actually quite easy to implement)
But for the plot/print, perhaps later there could be a feature to generate
some table of buses?
On the other hand, you can always look at when the busses are broken out
into plain nets to see the contents in a printed schematic.

Thanks,
Jon

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2017-12-13 11:15 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
>
>> As some of you know, I've been working on some new features for Eeschema
>> that expand the capabilities of buses.
>>
> [snip]
>
>> https://youtu.be/z6x0xiKgDIc
>>
>
> Those are some interesting changes to working with buses.
>
> There is one documentation type problem I see is related to use of aliases
> for a bus group.
>
> When you set up the alias for RAM via the menus you only see that one name
> on the schematic for the bus. Someone else looking at the schematic won't
> easily know what signals are included in the bus alias. Even the person who
> originally might forget if they haven't touched the schematic for a while
> and need to go back and make some changes.
>
> --
> Cheers!
>
> Kevin.
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