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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On May 31, 2020, at 6:12 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Maybe it got dropped when Eeschema was ported to the new tool framework
> or broken somewhere along the way.  I'm not seeing a way to change the
> bus entry orientation on master in Linux either so I suspect it got
> dropped.  I don't see a issue report for this on GitLab so please file
> an issue so it doesn't get lost in developers mailing list.


It’s good to know I’m not crazy.

Issue here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4588 <https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/4588>

> On 5/29/20 7:40 PM, Andy Peters wrote:
>> In 5.1.6 schematics on macOS Catalina, which is what I’m using, and this may be older …
>> 
>> When you choose “place wire to bus entry” (or the ‘z’ key) or “place bus to bus entry” (or ‘/‘), you don’t see the entry until you click the mouse on the schematic. And there’s no way to change the angle of the entry at placement time. There is no hotkey entry for that option, and the only way I can see to change it is to place the entry, get out of the place mode, right-click select then entry and then choose “set bus entry shape” from the context menu, and them move the entry to where you actually want it.
>> 
>> Yeah, that’s not good.
>> 
>> Am I missing something?
>> 
>> -a