[josm-dev] Disable "move whole way"?

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Peter Herison wrote:

> As Martin suggested at the German mailing list
> (http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-de/2009-June/046791.html)
> I post my question here:
>
> Is there an option to disable moving complete ways in JOSM?

Not yet. I fear also nobody made a Trac ticket for it yet.

> Background: Most of the time I like to add a new node (little cross
> between 2 nodes) or move a node of a way. In 1 of 10 actions I
> unintentionaly move the whole way. This is not realy a problem because
> of the Undo-Function but it disturbing my workflow.
> Also moving a complete way is a very rare action (in my normal daily
> work). Most of the time I only move a groupe a nodes of a way because I
> don't want to move the connection with other nodes.
>
> Martin suggested to play with the setting "node.snap-distance" (I guess
> this is what he meant) but this didn't work for me. I think this setting
> will only affect real nodes, not the virtual (cross-)nodes. Is that correct?

The correct value would be "mappaint.node.virtual-snap-distance". Your 
value is only for real nodes.

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