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On Mon, 16 Jan 2017, Svenn Are Bjerkem (svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> can we have real buses in gschem?

We already have that: just check out the branch 'xorn-experimental' in the 
geda-gaf repository.  Here is an excerpt from the original announcement 
mail:

> Components can now have bus pins. […] The "pinnumber=" attribute on a 
> pin and the "netname=" attribute on a bus are interpreted as a 
> comma-separated list of pin ranges.  Pin ranges can be denoted by either 
> ".." or ":"; when using the latter notation, the last pin isn't included 
> in the list.  Optionally, the pin range can be given in brackets and 
> have a common prefix.
>
>    Examples: "4..7,14..11" -> 4 5 6 7 14 13 12 11
>              "D[8:0]" -> D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0
> 
> Bus rippers still work the way they did before (i.e., not at all unless 
> you set the appropriate attributes by hand).

I didn't merge this feature into master yet because there didn't seem to 
be a consensus on what a bus should be.  Given that the feature has been 
requested several times since, it may be a good idea to merge it anyway, 
though.

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