[josm-dev] restrict mass-editing?

[Paul Johnson]

Jonathan Bennett wrote:
> Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> currently it is possible to "select all" and then set a tag for tens 
>> of thousands of objects at the same time. Do you think we should do an 
>> alert box saying "you are editing 12.345 objects. are you sure you want 
>> this?" - or maybe just disallow it altogether?
> 
> Or remove "Select All" completely? Are there any legitimate uses for
> this? I've only ever used it to find out how much of an area I've
> contributed :)

You named one.  Kicking off validators on just one layer when working
with multiple layers is another (since with nothing selected, it seems
to try validating all layers...)


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