Comment 5 for bug 181020

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Guillermo Espertino (Gez) (gespertino-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 181020] Re: Snap when dragging guides should be focused on the pointer

Oh, ok. I understand.
In that case I think that just changing the description of the feature
in the guides preferences to something like"snap guides to points when
dragging" would prevent misunderstandings.

Thanks again for your work.

Diederik van Lierop escribió:
> Agreed, but considering edges would require code to find the tangents of
> lines and Bezier curves, which is more complicated than just finding the
> distance of a point to a line (which we do now). It's not available in
> the 2geom libraries, and I don't know if there are plans for such a
> thing. That's why we currently only snap points to lines/curves, and it
> will probably stay like that for quite some time to come :-(
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