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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Buttons for automation (obligatory grab at our shared 3rd rail) Re: [geda-user] Antifork
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On Aug 24, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Hannu Vuolasaho (vuokko AT msn DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> How about something like this:
> 
> Allow from .gschembuttonsdefinitionfile or gafrc to define guile
> function which would equivalently do T U replace all this page diagonal.
> Or run make doc. Let CTRL-ALT-Shift-number execute that button. Both
> in my workflow are repeating actions.
> 
> If there isn't such definitions then there are no buttons.
> 
> Soon there would be some functions in gedasymbols. Evolution would
> gather the good parts and bad would be forgotten. Some might even get
> to gschem tree to be easily enabled. By default there would be the standard
> tool.

Yes. That’s constructive. Bare-bones simplicity out of the box, opt-in complexity. That’s the way a lot of excellent software (Python, LaTeX, …) works.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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