Re: gEDA-user: Stupid newbie question

[Chad Robinson <crj@lucubration.com>]

Steve Meier wrote:
> As a rule I leave snap on. Its only if I am edditting a symbol where I 
> want some non-pin object in a preceise location that I turn snap off... 
> And then I am ever very carefull.
I don't necessarily mind this but it's still a bit of a pain. Somebody 
commented that commercial products do this same thing, and it's true that SOME 
do, but that doesn't make it right. My mother never accepted "the other kids 
were doing it" as an excuse from ME, anyway. =)

I'm too much of a newbie to make a strong statement, but my gut tells me that 
this on-grid behavior is just nit picking. When I'm working with a dense 
schematic I want a very small snap grid so I can really pack in all those 
resistor and capacitor networks, and so I can make efficient use of the space 
on a page. The default grid of 100 is too granular for me. A snap grid of 50 
for component placement then switching to 10 for nets would really be ideal, 
but it's very easy to misplace them while doing this, and heaven forbid you 
try to move them around! And being able to choose a grid of 1 becomes almost 
useless except for creating text labels - you can't wire anything up, and if 
you accidentally move an object nothing will save you because you'll never get 
it back on grid (smart move-to-grid comments suggested earlier sound like a 
good idea!).

Would somebody be resistant to me taking a stab at implementing a snap-to-pin 
the feature myself? I don't know what the heck I'm doing but if it's not 
crazy-hard I'll give it a go.

Regards,
Chad