gEDA-dev: refdes_renum

[Werner Hoch]

Hi Stuart and all,

On Monday 12 February 2007 16:38, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> IMO, it's nice to have multiple ways to number the refdeses.
> Certainly, using guile to autonumber the refdeses in gschem is a
> "good thing" (TM), and I support any enhancements to that tool,
> including the two  features which were suggested during the code
> sprint, i.e.:
>
> 1.  Be able to clear all refdeses (e.g. C57 -> C?)
> 2.  "Gently" renumber refdeses.

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> Finally, this thread started because Rikster wanted to hack
> refdes_renum.  Since C56 -> C? is done already, maybe he'll be
> interested in implementing a --gentle option for refdes_renum?  But
> he'd better hurry, since I'm getting itchy to do it myself!  :-)

I jumped in the thread because of a feature request, to clear the refdes  
when placing or copying symbols. 
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1443604&group_id=161080&atid=818429

At the moment we get duplicate refdes numbers when copying parts of the 
schematic.

Regards
Werner