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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Pin hole size
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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:00:13 +0200
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On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 01:50 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 24.10.2012 um 00:51 schrieb Stefan Salewski:
> 
> > Seriously -- I wonder if we really should advice beginners asking  
> > how to
> > see the pin drill size to study the file formats and even edit files
> > with text editors.
> 
> Sometimes I wonder how one would make proper footprints _without_ a  
> text editor. How would I change drill size from 28 mil to 30 mil, for  
> example? How would I add a pin number?
> 
> ... and please don't show me something for pcb's command line. That's  
> even more complex than using a text editor.
> 

Maybe I missed something, but it was my feeling that the initial
question was about displaying drill size of an existing footprint.

For advanced users it may be ok to edit footprint and pcb files with an
editor (I think it has not to be emacs). But we should not give
beginners the feeling that this is the general mode of operation for
gEDA/PCB. We have a few footprint generators and some commands from
inside PCB program to modify properties -- for me that was enough, and I
have to admit that I am not smart enough to create that files with an
editor.