Alt key overlay should show whether/not a Chest has been Lim

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Alt key overlay should show whether/not a Chest has been Lim

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When I press the Alt key, ingame, I get an overlay showing me a bunch of information, such as icons for what's in Chests and what Assemblers produce, and arrows indicating the direction-of-movement of Inserters.

What I am not shown is whether or not each Chest visible on the screen has been set to Slot-Limited. I don't need to know what the Slot-Limit for each visible Chest is, but it would be extremely useful to be able to see which ones have been set to Limited and which ones are not, i.e. defaulting to unLimited.
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Re: Alt key overlay should show whether/not a Chest has been Lim

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Same is valid for smart inserters with conditions only.
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Re: Alt key overlay should show whether/not a Chest has been Lim

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ssilk wrote:Same is valid for smart inserters with conditions only.
Good point.

Also, it'd be nice to get a bit more feedback on "success" when you use the right/left click to "paste" a chest setting to another chest, e.g. a content slot limiter. I'd like a distinctive beeping sound, to tell me that "yes, game understands my intent". As it is now, I find myself manually checking 75% of the chests I "paste" to just to make sure they're covered, and sometimes they aren't, so I end up stockpiling 2400 units of something that I only wanted to stockpile 100 of.
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