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On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Edward Hennessy
(ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 2, 2015, at 10:12 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps I’m misunderstanding, but it appears that you are assuming that the pages open in gschem represent some sort of coherent, organized design. In real life, they don’t: the coherence eventually emerges from what you’re doing with the pages, but it’s not necessarily present in the set of pages you have open.
>
> I've only used flat for schematic designs, but it is becoming apparent:
>
> - The page manager can only make a best guess to the hierarchy of a design. If a page isn’t loaded, it won’t show the complete story.
>
> - A schematic can have multiple parents, but gschem doesn’t have the functionality to track more than one parent. And this variable only stores the most recent “up.”
>
> It seems to me:
>
> - That the page manager shouldn’t try and track the hierarchy. It should have a flat list of all the pages that are loaded. If hierarchy is tracked, it should be done somewhere outside gschem.

It would be nice if find was somehow able to find everything in the dir at
least, at least as an option.  Lots of editors fail at this and its annoying.
If find is graceful enough that it can be abused into performing navigation
that's really useful, because "open 5 different files first, then go back
to searching for what you wanted" is an annoying way to have things work.
Often it will be all related sch in a dir, and if not the user presumably
knows well which are of interest.

Britton