Re: gEDA-user: sym files sorting

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> The gschem gui seems to append new items to the bottom of the file.  
> As a
> consequence, symbols done with the GUI are a pain to edit in a text
> editor. Pins mix with comments and attributes in no particular  
> order. It
> would be nice, if the internals were sorted by type, by value, and/ 
> or by
> position.
>
> Did anyone write a script to sort the internals of a sym file?
>

Keep in mind what happens to the files in a revision control system,   
sorting might not be the best option.

Or would it help the revision control systems, after an initial sort  
nightmare ;-P

If we do sort them, I'd vote for alphabetical on keyname.


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