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Subject: Re: [geda-user] RFC: the "Cursor line noise"
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2016 10:17:03 +0200
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gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu writes:

> Today I bumped into an old problem that does affect users who want to
> keep .pcb files in VCS: the Cursor line and the Grid line noise.
>
> The core of the problem is that these two lines represent GUI
> settings. On one hand it'd be great to have the last cursor position
> and grid setting saved but it certainly can interfere with VCS usage
> generating dummy diffs.

True, but at this scale not really a problem here.

A second file per design is overkill.  Either the settings are not saved
at all per design, only per directory or per user, or keep it as it is.
But I have no strong opinion on this.

Gruß,
-- 
Stephan