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From: Chris Green <cl AT isbd DOT net>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Ends of net lines, why has one got a blue arrow on
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:20:30PM +0300, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 10:51:37PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I've been drawing circuits with gschem quite happily for a couple of
> > days.
> > 
> > Normally unterminated net lines have red squares on the ends which
> > disappear when you connect them to a pin or to another net line.
> > 
> > However I've managed to produce one which has a blue arrowhead on the
> > end, this would be useful in some cases but I don't know how I did it!
> > I seem to remember reading about it somewhere but I can't find it now.
> > Can someone tell me how to change an unterminated end of a net line to
> > a blue arrow please.
> > 
> 
> I assume you use the version 1.8.x?  If so, there was a
> feature/bug there that was reverted in more recent versions back
> in 2012, because of its ambiguous results. AFAIR, if a net had at
> least two connections to symbol pins (probably, on different
> pages, I cannot remember), its dangling ends showed as you
> describe it here. The commit 013e175 and its predecessors in the
> geda-gaf or lepton-eda repos can shed some light on this, though
> the main discussion happened on launchpad (or maybe here on the
> list).
> 
OK, thanks, yes I'm using gEDA 1.8.2, it's the version that is in the
Ubuntu repositories for my current version of Xubuntu.

It's not a big deal, it was just a bit confusing/surprising.

-- 
Chris Green