I\'d guess he means the orientation of the docked item, spinning the docking point, not the direction. If so, no, such option is not available yet, and yeah, it\'s a bum.
For example turret docking point on a side, for example the left side, has the docked turret by default in frontal direction, which is cool. But on the right side, it\'s directed to the back, backwards. And that\'s not cool, you can\'t make symmetrical ships that way.
Turning/spinning the block without changing the side it\'s on, would be usseful. That is already how the angle blocks work, so it should be possible (and easy) to do the same for turret and ship docking points :D