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pcbnew: Manual NET editing quirks

Description

Cannot create net and assign it to a pad afterwards.

  • Or, cannot rename empty net, as per screencast?

This, cannot be used net is lost afterwards after save (this point is as designed), but why allow to create net i a first place..

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open this: noname_2.kicad_pcb
  2. Give net name "GND", try to assign it to a pad -> impossible.

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KiCad Version

Application: Pcbnew

Version: (5.99.0-8143-gf7b20611c1), release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.5
	libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19042), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
	Date: Jan  5 2021 13:50:08
	wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
	Boost: 1.73.0
	OCE: 6.9.1
	Curl: 7.71.0
	ngspice: 32
	Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
	KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
	KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
	KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON