Wishlist: Feature Request: finish tool action with same Keyboard shortcut / hotkey
Description
Current behaviour
When using the move tool for instance: I hover the component I want to move, press M, move my cursor to the desired location and then pressing M again doesn't do anything. I need to press enter or left-click to drop the component
Expected behavior
I wish I could drop the component or general speaking using the same hotkey used to activate the tool to validate the tool input. I think that could be a really natural way to interact with KiCad. When I have to perform a lot of schematics editing I end up using extensively the grab / move / wire tool and I'm instinctively reaching for the M, G and W key to drop the component or place a wire node.
Edit
It seems that this could be a feature that was already implemented in KiCad 5 according to my research. At least with the Wire tool.
I didn’t personally verified this but in KiCad 5 when using the Wire tool you could press W to activate the Wire tool and press W again to place all the nodes that you want and ultimately press K to finish wiring.
I find this workflow to be more intuitive and also demand less keyboard gymnastic when using a laptop with a trackpad.
When I use the move tool I found it really inconvenient to have to reach for the enter key of the left click buttons of my trackpad.
KiCad Version
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor
Version: (6.0.5-0), release build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.79.1 (SecureTransport) LibreSSL/3.3.6 zlib/1.2.11 nghttp2/1.45.1
Platform: macOS Version 12.4 (Build 21F79), 64 bit, Little endian, wxMac
Build Info:
Date: May 3 2022 12:26:25
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.78.0
OCC: 7.6.2
Curl: 7.64.1
ngspice: 35
Compiler: Clang 12.0.0 with C++ ABI 1002
Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON