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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:04:47 -0500
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On 07/15/2015 10:06 PM, John Doty wrote:
> Features often make the job*harder*.

gschem has menu pull downs that can be programmed to suit different users.  New features can be
dealt with by publishing different menu setups so old familiar stays the same and new ways of
using a GUI are just a configuration setting away.

I don't like the 2-key sequence for a so called hotkey.  I want a single key hotkey for left hand,
and mouse functions for the right.  Lefties should be able to easily map it the other way.

Here's an idea:  Is there any way like doxygen to automate the creation of user manuals,
beginner tutorials and such so they can be made inversions to match particular key bindings?
One way to get that would be to make the underlying function call names very standard and
write docs in terms of those, then substitute keymapped names.  maybe just start with existing docs
at first and awk process and hand edit them to get to the underlying function call names as a docs template...