I’m aware that it’s a internal representation. If we can get eeschema to behave similar to pcbnew this would be great, I just don’t want all my wires to be split automatically. Perhaps this is something to be included in the v.5 roadmap instead of beeing patched to current version?
Ideally, I’d like to have the ability to; delete a segment (backspace-key today), the entire wire (not possible in current version), delete between two wire corners (delete-key today), delete connection (only available in popup menu?). From: Chris Pavlina Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 11:26 AM To: Thor-Arne Cc: KiCad Developers List Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Schematic Cleanup: Split lines atjunctions The problem with "delete wire" is that "wire" is an internal representation. The display gives no hints where a wire starts and ends; collinear wires are possible and common. That makes "delete wire" unpredictable. I would much rather replace it with a similar but simpler (from the user's perspective) function. pcbnew can delete a segment (which, due to its tendency to merge collinear segments, typically refers to a visual segment), delete a section (between the nearest two junction points), or delete an entire contiguous net. Maybe eeschema could have the same or similar functions? On May 20, 2016 3:00 AM, "Thor-Arne" <[email protected]> wrote: On windows the current behaivior is; delete-key : delete whole wire backspace-key : delete current segment If these are not working on all platforms, this needs to be fixed. And there should be a hotkey to completely delete a wire with all nodes, perhaps clrl-delete. There is no need to change the behavior of the delete-key since that functionality already is there on the backpace-key. Doing this is in my opinion a regression. -----Original Message----- From: José Ignacio Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 3:46 AM To: Simon Richter Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Schematic Cleanup: Split lines atjunctions The current behavior is fairly annoying, you can't really know beforehand how much the command is gonna delete, since collinear wires are not always merged (only when drawing more traces, not when dragging points), so sometimes it might delete just a single little chunk of the line, or the whole thing. I guess you could say it makes working with eeschema more exciting ;). On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 8:00 PM, Simon Richter <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, On 20.05.2016 00:25, Thor-Arne wrote: Delete wire is on the delete button. and delete segment is on the backspace key. Ah, that makes (some) sense. To me, the behaviour of the delete key looks fairly nonsensical, because it will stop at corners, but not at junctions, while I'd expect "delete wire" to do the opposite. This leaves me with a difficult problem though -- I need net ties to actually generate different nets on both sides, so I need different wires that aren't combined in order to get different netlist items, but this makes the delete key behave differently for net ties. Please do NOT change the behavior of the delete buton, it is used all the time. Hm, as said I don't find it that useful, because most of the time it deletes a connection I still need, but leaves dangling segments. Would it make sense to replace it with a "delete connection" functionality that would never leave dangling ends? This still means I'm going to redo this patch stack -- the structural changes in the cleanup function still make sense IMO, but the logic is obviously wrong then. Simon _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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