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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Thoughts on gschem UI
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It also occurs to me that the UI being largely undocumented is bad but
worse is the absence of documentation for the rc file and basic
command line functions. Has anyone updated the man page lately?

OT: I did not see that any where on the wiki or in the man page. How
do you turn magnetic net mode off in the rc file?

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:32 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 18, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
>
>> The internals of
>> gschem haven't been completely rewritten in a long time, if at all, yet
>> from about 2004-2007 it morphed from a program which I found very
>> difficult to use to a program which I find very EASY to use.
>
> Interesting. I started using it in 2002, and haven't really seen any great improvement in usability. It was good then, and is good now. Mostly, I've been hurt by unanticipated consequences of "improvements". At least some of the worst ideas (e.g. magnetic net mode) can be turned off by the rc files.
>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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