[josm-dev] PATCH: in "Draw" mode, extend current way

[Chris Morley]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>>> 4. when clicking on a node with nothing selected, select that node;
>> It would be very useful to do this if only a way is
>> selected, too. Then you could do...
>>   
>>   * use select mode
>>   * select way
>>   * use draw mode
>>   * click on node at end (selecting it) [currently ignored]
>>   * click elsewhere to extend way
> 
> Another option would be: simply act as if the nearest end point of the
> selected way were selected. That would eliminate having to click on
> the desired end point - and for those 0.5% of cases where you actually
> want to draw a segment from the far end of the way and not from the
> near end, you'll have to shift-click the node...
> 
A visual indication on the end that will be extended would be provided 
by the terminal mode being highlighted. This would then make it 
consistent with joining only to selected nodes when a way was not selected.

To keep tagging easy would require tagging to be done only on ways when 
both ways and nodes are selected. This would be useful anyway to keep 
down the number of incorrectly tagged nodes. Tagging both together would 
be rare.

Chris