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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would go with either historic (modedit and libedit) or current (fp_editor and symbol_editor).

Mixing the two would be particularly obscure.

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 26 Nov 2019, at 19:40, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11/26/19 2:20 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
>> I would like to introduce two new official tags on the bug tracker to
>> track issues relating to the symbol and footprint editors. Currently we
>> are tracking these under the eeschema and pcbnew tags respectively, but
>> those are growing quite large (pcbnew has over 500). I think tracking
>> these two tools under separate tags would help, since then we can more
>> easily locate bugs/wishlist items for them.
>> 
>> I am thinking the footprint editor should be *modedit*, and my initial
>> proposal for the symbol editor is *libedit*. I don't really like libedit
>> though, since technically footprints also live in a library (but the
>> code calls it libedit). Anyone have a better suggestion for its tag?
> 
> How about "symedit", short for symbol editor.  Honestly I would prefer
> "fpedit" over "modedit" since we really don't refer to footprints as
> modules any more.
> 
>> 
>> Once we sort out the tag, and if no one objects, I will go through and
>> update the tags after the GitLab transition is done.
>> 
>> -Ian
>> 
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