Thomas, as a new user, I actually do not agree. I would prefer some "tips" 
activated at startup (rotate through a bunch or present them when an applicable 
command is triggered).

I'm sure this is a subject that has been discussed before, and our conversation 
here may be taken under advisement. Just wanted to share my 2 cents.

Greg S.

> On Jul 3, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Thomas Pointhuber <thomas.pointhu...@gmx.at> 
> wrote:
> 
> I think using "zoom as center of zoom" by default would be the better
> default choise, because it's the one most users are used too by other
> software as well. From the people I know, everyone changes this settings
> as one of their first actions.
> 
> 
>> Am 2017-07-03 um 16:52 schrieb Greg Smith:
>> Thank you for this! I think this is one of the things that make newcomers 
>> confused about the UI. Another is the pan cursor to zoom center. But I 
>> really like that functionality for mouse only navigation. You can turn it 
>> off then you have the more common "zoom using cursor as center of zoom". 
>> Which are both much better than the other common technique of zoom from 
>> center regardless of cursor location. Kudos to developers for the more 
>> useful options (in my opinion). If the current operation wasn't the default, 
>> I would have been less confused but would have taken me longer to find the 
>> better (in my opinion) current default.
>> 
>> Greg S.
>> 
>>> On Jul 3, 2017, at 6:51 AM, Kristoffer Ödmark 
>>> <kristofferodmar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey!
>>> 
>>> I made the copy/paste/cut functionality work as someone new to the software 
>>> might expect. That is, the cut command now actually puts the block in 
>>> clipboard and then deletes the block, compared to just deleting it (wtf)?
>>> 
>>> They are also bound to the almost universal defaults of ctrl+c/v/x.
>>> 
>>> - Kristoffer
>>> <0001-Eeschema-copy-cut-paste-to-ctrl-c-x-v.patch>
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