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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Import schematics doesn't fully honor
 Settings->Import New Elements At->Mark
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:57 AM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> It's not a big deal either way, it just looked like a reasonable
>> option to simplify things.  Is this the only way the mark function is
>> overloaded, or are there others that you know of?
>
> It's also used when converting buffers to elements, and in general,
> when dealing with buffers at all (although it's implicit).

For me it looks like convert buffer to element uses the point that was
clicked when the selection to be converted was cut or copied, the mark
seems to be ignored.  This is for sure another case where the click is
significant and useful though.  If there were some way for the UI to
announce how it's going to interpret that click (eg new element
centroid) or something.  A lot of these things are minority operations
and it may not be worth it though.

> Elements also have a "mark" so think of the ctrl-M mark as "a mark"
> instead of "the mark".

Do these two different things that get referred to as mark have
anything in common?