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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se
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Subject: [geda-user] Re: New config
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Dmitry:
> On Wed, 23 May 2018 17:04:28 +0200 (CEST)
> karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
> 
> > geda-user.conf:
> > [export]
> > paper="iso_a4"
> 
> Should be without quotation marks.

Ok, works.

> > margins="0:0:0:0"
> 
> Should be semicolon-separated in the configuration file.

Ok, works. Isn't it a little, lets say stupid, to have ":" on the 
command line and ";" in the file?

> And it's easier to use 'gaf config --user' to edit that
> file.

Why is that (I just need proper docs) ?

> > gnetlistrc: 
...
> To set equivalent settings in geda.conf (in current
> directory; for geda-user.conf use 'gaf config --user'):
> 
> $gaf config gnetlist.hierarchy traverse-hierarchy true
> $gaf config gnetlist.hierarchy mangle-refdes-attribute true
> $gaf config gnetlist.hierarchy refdes-attribute-separator ""

Why are you people so fond of that gaf config command line.
Isn't cp much easier if I want it in multiple places ?

> > Is there any possibility of splitting geda-user.conf into
> > separate parts?
> 
> Unfortunately, no.
> Again, it's better to use 'gaf config' to read/write
> configuration settings.
> And for lepton-eda you may try lepton-conf GUI
> utility that hides internal program settings:
> https://github.com/graahnul-grom/lepton-conf

I'm opposed to that kind of mentality.
If it is a config file, the option that the only one to change it is
me with my editor should be valid.

I just experienced that when I closed gschem, my changes were erased.
This is not a config file, this is the programs own cache. Please
separate that from the config file proper functionality. I do not like
the way this is handled by the program and I consider this to be broken.

A config file req. is that I should be able to put it in a svn/git/...
repository, share it with friends etc. Entries like:
 [gschem.dialog-geometry.hotkeys]
 x=1073
 y=39
 width=382
 height=973
are troublesome and shouldn't be in config files.

From my point of view I'd rather have thoose old rc files even though
it is code (wait, I'm a programmer, I like code) 
to this messy thing.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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