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Date:	Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:30:35 -0700
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On Sep 15, 2013, at 1:58 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote:

> On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 08:57 -0700, Stephen Williams wrote:
>> OK, this has got to be a trivial basic thing, but I can't seem
>> to drag around the element name of an element. I managed to
>> get the name of an element separated (in space) from the element,
>> and I'm trying to drag it back to the element. I can select the
>> element name (it turns pale blue) but I can't drag it anywhere.
>> I can select the element and it and the name are selected together
>> and I can drag the pair around.
>> 
>> For now, I've un-done myself out of this situation, but how it
>> it supposed to work?
>> 
> 
> I think -- long time ago -- it was not possible to move a refdes text in
> PCB program when it was selected (light blue). I think that may be very
> confusing. And there was a menu entry like "Config/Lock Names" -- you
> should check if that may be selected.
> 
Yup.  I've keyboard fumbled and ended up locking things without knowing it.

Also... I had a strange bug show up once where locking behavior was acting very strangely.  Exit/restart of pcb made it go away.  Never saw it again since, so don't know how to reproduce it.

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