[josm-dev] [OSM-talk] JOSM Modeless???

[David Earl]

On 24/10/2007 17:34, Rick Collins wrote:
> My real point was that there are tasks that are fairly verbose in 
> terms of the mouse actions required.  Another example is adding 
> multiple nodes to an existing way.  I have to click the Draw Node 
> button, then place the node, click the Select button, click in an 
> empty spot to unselect the node just created, then start over with 
> clicking the Draw Node button.  


No you don't. Shift-Click does a new node without connecting.

(Click on its own does a new node and extend from selected; however that 
is changing a little bit - Frederick is intending to make it easier to 
determine which way you are trying to extend - at the moment nodes are 
ambiguous).


> Just as deleting multiple objects is 
> somewhat tedious without a delete mode, 

Several people have already said this is going to change, but even if 
not you can still select several objects and press D; the only 
difference from the Delete key is then that you have to switch back to 
select or node mode. It's hardly a big deal.


> adding multiple nodes is 
> tedious with the current Draw Node function.  

because you didn't know about shift-click. Mind you, you'll still forget 
to press shift from time to time, I'm sure.

David