[josm-dev] Starting a new way with one selected

[David Earl]

At present if you are in the Draw Nodes mode and you have nothing 
selected, you can SHIFT+CLICK to
(a) add a new node in a blank area, or
(b) add a new node in an existing way, or
(c) select an existing node in the middle of a way, or
(d) select an existing node at the end of a way
and then extend from the new or existing node (in case d, extending the 
way, and in the others creating a new way)

However, if you already have a way selected, cases c and d don't work.

Can anyone think why they shouldn't? Or is this just a bug? Perhaps its 
that the SHIFT modifier doesn't really do anything different if nothing 
is already selected.

This is the most common case where you have to still switch modes at the 
moment - you create a way, and come to its dead end (say), and then you 
want to do another starting from an existing intermediate node (case c), 
possibly in the way you just created, possibly in some other way. Being 
able to use the SHIFT modifier would remove the need to SELECT-MODE, 
CLICK, DRAW-NODES, would be consistent and would mean you'd hardly ever 
need to go into select mode when drawing ways.

David