gEDA-user: Bus-ripper enhancements

[Bill Cox <bill@viasic.com>]

Hi.

I've been using a lot of busses in my schematics.  The default bus 
ripper symbols look good, but they make schematics harder to work with. 
In particular, if you drag a bus line around, you loose connections to 
the bus rippers.

I haven't been using the bus rippers, but instead directly connect the 
net lines to the bus lines.  This helps when I move bus signals, but it 
doesn't look as good.

IMO, bus rippers should be more built-in.  Rather than loading a 
bus-ripper symbol, gschem should draw the connection differently.

And, while I'm asking for enhancements, the netname attribute should 
automatically be aligned with the bus ripper by default.  Currently, all 
of my vertical bus taps require that add the netname attribute, and then 
rotate and move the attribute.  What would really help productivity here 
would be a net naming mode where every net I click on get's the previous 
name, incremented by 1, and properly aligned.  So, for example, I could 
name my bus taps A[0], A[1], A[2], ... A[31] with 31 mouse clicks.  A 
similar symbol naming mode would also be good.  I use autonumber 
attributes a lot, but I'd rather have control over which symbols get 
which numbers.

If any of this can be done with just pure guile code, I'd love to hack 
it in.

Thanks,
Bill