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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about “unfold bus”?  Leaves you in the wire tool (like “start wire”), or in the previous tool (like “move”)?

> On 19 Jun 2019, at 15:08, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Ahh, I misunderstood your earlier comments.  When you said they should act the same I thought you meant both like the old immediate action behaviour, not both like the old toolbar behaviour.
> 
>> On 19 Jun 2019, at 13:46, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> The immediate actions are back to the same behavior as the initial
>> commit (one shot) and using the toolbar or menu to select a tool now
>> stacks tools so each escape to exit the current tool brings up the
>> previous tool until you finally end up back at the selection tool.  I
>> think users are going to expect exiting a tool to always end up back at
>> the selection tool not the previously selected tool.  Here is a synopsis
>> of the behavior I think we should aim for:
>> 
>> Immediate actions:
>> 
>> 1. The appropriate tool should be enabled and begin drawing at the
>> current cursor location (works).
>> 2. When the tool is busy drawing, the escape key should cancel the
>> current edit and the selected tool should remain enabled.  Immediate
>> actions like move, rotate, mirror, etc. should be blocked until the tool
>> is idle but I'm open to suggestion on this.  I can see the utility in
>> canceling the edit and performing the requested action.
>> 3. When the tool is idle, the escape key should exit the tool and return
>> to the selection tool.  Immediate actions like move, rotate, mirror,
>> etc. should perform the expected operation and return to the selected tool.
>> 
>> Using the toolbar and menu to select a tool should behave the same as
>> above except that no drawing begins at the current cursor position
>> because the cursor position is meaningless while it's over a toolbar
>> button or menu entry.
>> 
>> I hope I am explaining this well enough.
>> 
>> On 6/18/19 5:35 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>> OK, next attempt is in. ;)
>>> 
>>>> On 18 Jun 2019, at 21:07, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Better but now the second (third, fourth, fifth, ...) escape key does
>>>> not exit after the first escape key cancels the immediate action.  Using
>>>> the toolbar or menu to select the tool does work correctly.  One other
>>>> new oddity is that selecting a second tool using the toolbar or menu
>>>> will result in the previous tool being selected rather than the
>>>> selection tool after escape is pressed when the tool is idle.  I think
>>>> you may have gone too far the other way.
>>>> 
>>>> On 6/18/19 3:52 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>>> Hi Wayne,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I checked in some new code.  Give it a go when you get a chance.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Jeff.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 18 Jun 2019, at 13:01, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Wire, bus, graphic line, and sheet but only when enabled with an
>>>>>> immediate hotkey.  When I enable the tool via a toolbar button or
>>>>>> selecting a menu entry, then the behavior is the same as the legacy tool
>>>>>> framework.  It really should not matter how a tool is enabled, only the
>>>>>> initial behavior.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 6/18/2019 7:53 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Wayne,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I wrote the whole PushTool/PopTool stuff exactly for that case.  Which action in particular is going back to the SelectionTool?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> (Note that some are “supposed” to.  If you click on a tool in the toolbar, or select it from the Place menu, then cancelling should take you back to the SelectionTool.  However, if you use the context menu or a hotkey, it should push and then pop the drawing tool.  Not to say that it’s not buggy, or that the design behaviour isn’t optimal.)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Jeff.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> PS: should I make the same changes to Pcbnew, or should be await more feedback?  (Feedback on the forums has been uniformly positive so far, but pretty sparse with only 3 likes.)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 18 Jun 2019, at 12:48, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hey Jeff,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I spent some time this morning playing around with the "immediate"
>>>>>>>> hotkeys in Eeschema and it's better but there is still one annoying
>>>>>>>> difference from the legacy behavior.  When cancelling (escape key) a
>>>>>>>> drawing in progress, the drawing is aborted, the current tool is
>>>>>>>> canceled, and the selection tool is enable.  The legacy behavior was
>>>>>>>> abort the drawing in progress and keep the current tool enabled.  The
>>>>>>>> current tool would only be canceled when it was not busy drawing
>>>>>>>> something.  It's rather cumbersome to have to keep enabling the drawing
>>>>>>>> tool every time you exit a drawing when you make a mistake.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 6/15/2019 3:45 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I’ve checked in code which makes the drawing hotkeys “immediate” in Eeschema and the Symbol Editor.  It was more involved than I was expecting, so there may be some nasty surprises.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I folks like it, I can apply the same architecture to Pcbnew.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>> Jeff.
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