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On Sep 27, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:

>  Of course we have drag select, but that
> operation is not very fast (click, move, click, check).

The addition of unnecessary =93features=94 has made this approach =
harder. There are two problems:

1. It used to be that to move things, I selected and then did =93m=94. =
Now, I can just click and drag. But the nasty consequence is that often =
when I try a box selection, I move something instead. Given that a major =
reason for moving things is to relieve crowding, making actions =
difficult to predict makes the job harder, not easier.

2. It used to be easy to =93clean up=94 a selection by shift-click on =
the objects I didn=92t want selected. But now, gschem *extends* the =
selection when you do this to a net segment. Fortunately, I can disable =
this inconsistent behavior with (net-selection-mode "disabled=94).

Clever overloading of actions to make simple special cases easier makes =
the general case harder.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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