A recorder; was: Re: gEDA-user: PCB a bad name ?

[Tomasz Nowak]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:25 +0200, kmk wrote:
> 
>> The latest version did a major step in this direction with the ability
>> to zoom with the mouse wheel. (Thanks to Peter Brett, IIRC)
> 
> I added that functionality to gschem. I'm not sure who it was due to in
> PCB. By the time I checked out a CVS copy of pcb, I discovered that most
> of my wishlist had already been implemented :).
> 
> Peter Brett and I sat down with some people here and came up with a list
> of improvements which could help new users (and experienced users alike)
> with the GUIs.
> 
>> The next basic UI feature on my wish list would be visual handles for
>> tracks and objects. I think, I mentioned this before. Just take it as a
>> reminder on how to make a user happy ;-)
> 
> You mean "grips" at the end of tracks when you hover over them? That was
> something we thought about here too. Just something to make the ends of
> tracks more grabbable. I'm not sure how it would work with other types
> of object in PCB though.
> 

It would be great to have a macro recorder like the one present in 
Windows 3.1. I often need to press a combination like 
"ee<TAB>pintype<TAB>pwr<TAB><Space><TAB><Space><Enter>" to mark a pin 
with a pintype. If I could record such a sequence and play it with a 
simple combination it would be nice :)
BTW - why there is no alt+... combination to set "[X] Visibility"?

Tomasz Nowak