Re: gEDA-user: pcb: parameter escaping for commands

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Griessen wrote:
> Sascha Silbe wrote:
> 
>>> To turn *on* the display, press the 'd' key over the element you're
>>> interested in. [...]
>>> Shift-D over an element does work, though.
>> OK, the confusion was that PCB doesn't act on the _selected_ item(s), 
>> but on the one under the pointer. That's inconsistent with any 
>> application I've used so far. It also makes having those commands in the 
>> menu not only useless, but severly misleading.
> 
> I agree.  I'd like to see default keybindings use selected set more often.
> 
> John Grioessen

It wouldn't bother me to see that changed too.  It took me a long time 
to realize what was going on...  Despite it violating the principle of 
least surprise (why did everything change?), I think I'd be in favor of 
changing this.  I *think* it would just be a pcb-menu.res/gpcb-menu.res 
change.

-Dan





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