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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:52:11 -0400
From: Joshua Lansford <Joshua DOT Lansford AT laserlinc DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Symbol attributes
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Also if you hit ex while an attribute is selected you can change its color.
~Joshua

On 07/25/2012 06:26 AM, Karl Hammar wrote:
> --------
> Gabriel:
> ...
>> The most annoying issue is that, being an attribute, it is displayed
>> in a different color than the text associated with symbols which played
>> a similar role in the standard library. I don't think it is right now
>> possible to modify the colour depending on regexp matching on the attribute
>> name; otherwise it would be nice if attribute name matching ".*label.*"
>> would use text color (automatically atattribute promotion time).
> ...
>
> An attribute is simply a pair of lines:
>
> T 100 1300 5 10 0 0 0 0 1
> author=Karl Hammar
>
> where the "5" above is the colour, see [1] for details.
>
> If your program remembers the "previous" line, it can change the
> colour.
>