Re: gEDA: New dialog for editing attributes

[Patrick Bernaud <b-patrick-at-NOSPAMwanadoo_dot_fr>]

Hi Ales,

Ales Hvezda writes:
 > [...]
 > 	Actually I kind of like this sorta bizarre behavior/appearance.
 > I didn't like the old edit dialog box because when you pressed enter 
 > you would create a multi-line attribute.  How common are multi-line
 > attributes?  I would guess that they are not the norm.	I would advocate
 > that if the user wants to edit multi-line attributes, they should use
 > the Edit/Text... dialog box. 
 > 

Actually I was not aware that multi-line attributes were allowed. I do
not see the point in making it possible to have an attribute value
on more than a single line.

The question is: are they legitimate, documented, desired, or should
we add some checks to avoid them?


 > 	Patrick, if it is easy to implement the "edit multi-line attributes"
 > in your new dialg box, then by all means, but if it is too much pain, then
 > it can wait till a future release.

Right now I do not see a way of editing them from the attribute list
but I will have a look at that.


Patrick