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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:57:23 -0500
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Import schematics doesn't fully honor
 Settings->Import New Elements At->Mark
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> It's not a big deal either way, it just looked like a reasonable
> option to simplify things.  Is this the only way the mark function is
> overloaded, or are there others that you know of?

It's also used when converting buffers to elements, and in general,
when dealing with buffers at all (although it's implicit).

Elements also have a "mark" so think of the ctrl-M mark as "a mark"
instead of "the mark".