X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <559FB81E.3050708@envinsci.co.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:18:38 +0100 From: "Matt Rhys-Roberts (matt DOT rhys-roberts AT envinsci DOT co DOT uk) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Organization: Envin Scientific Ltd. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: [geda-user] deleting inherited attributes? References: <559FABCF DOT 1090401 AT envinsci DOT co DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <559FABCF.1090401@envinsci.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com It's ok, the old device= attribute was hiding off-screen below the symbol, when viewed in gschem. I've deleted it now. Hope this is useful to others... Matt On 10/07/15 12:26, Matt Rhys-Roberts (matt DOT rhys-roberts AT envinsci DOT co DOT uk) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > Hi, I've created a new schematic symbol, starting from an existing > standard one. > > I should have deleted its original device= attribute, as it's now > showing as an inherited attribute. This is not a terrible thing, but > if this happens again I'd like to know how to remove all inherited > stuff, as it's pointless at best or confusing at worst. :) > > I can see the old device= line if I view the .sym file as text, > embedded between other lines which I don't know if/how they relate. > Not sure what to edit. > > Advice welcome please. Thanks, Matt.