gEDA-user: n00b question: English - Metric connections

[Eric Brombaugh]

Dave N6NZ wrote:
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>>> Now trying to figure out the proper approach to doing ground plane.  
>>> Turning on the "clear lines" setting would have been good if I'd known  
>>> about it _before_ doing all those routes, but the shift-J shortcut is  
>>> working nicely.
>> You can select all of them and do :ChangeJoin(SelectedLines,0) to
>> change them all to unjoined.
> 
> Whenever I've forgotten the "new lines clear poly" setting I simply use 
> vi to slap in the "clearpoly" flag -- of course I usually catch the 
> error before doing more than a few tracks, so it isn't burdensome.

Yes! Just one of the advantages of text-based file formats. Really makes 
you wonder why binary files are so popular. Probably because it's easier 
to do an fwrite()/fread() on a huge data structure in memory than to 
write text input parsers.

Eric