Id like to make: Distance between building placement

[jayDayZee]

Hi,

Im quite new to Factorio, but Ive done some LUA scripting (in zerok / spring. nothing published like). Ive been watching videos (great community) and it occours to me that the building "gap" distance tool in Spring / ZeroK would save Immense ammounts of time for building in the early pre-robot game, without feeling "cheaty"

As a design:

place an item, configure the settings. Press Ctrl-c, place the same item some distance away, hold Ctrl-v and building will be limited to multiples of the same relative distance in either direction.Settings of the new buildings will match the original.

It seems that between the x y axis limit mod and the nanobot blueprint mods, that both position of build and the settings can be copied like this. As for the settings specifically, is it that that vanilla is easy enough, and that further mods require specific code (e.g. Bob's Mods inserters)? or is there a sort of generic all settings that can be copied?

Does anyone think this is a good idea? And I will get on and build it, or help someone else build it.

How does this sit with the philosophy in terms of "cheaty"? Seems ok to me, its just saving on micro mouse placement all the time, which is an RSA issue!

Thanks

Jay