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From: John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com>
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Subject: [geda-user] Latest gschem misfeature
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 06:20:03 -0700
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Recent versions of gschem select all interconnected net segments when you click on a selected net segment. Cute, but not very useful. How often do you delete, copy, or move an entire net?

On the other hand, deleting, copying, or moving a circuit fragment, including net segments, is a very common operation. Normally, shift-click on a selected object deselects that object, allowing you to fine-tune a selection before a group operation. 

However, the new cuteness interferes with this in an unpredictable way. Shift-click on some selected net segments works in the regular way, deselecting them, but on others it selects the whole interconnected net. This makes operations on groups more difficult: you can't reliably select the group in question.

Is there a way to turn off this misfeature, restoring consistent, regular behavior?

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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jpd AT noqsi DOT com