[josm-dev] "Add nodes" functionality changed?

[David Earl]

On 12/03/2009 17:58, Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> Press ESCAPE the whole time like you did for shift.

Using ESCAPE as a modifier is very unconventional. Pressing it and 
releasing it first has a very different feel to using a key as a modifier.

I think the use to which the shift has been usurped is spurious. If 
you're so close to a node that it may be snapped to it, you are likely 
not zoomed in far enough to make an accurate click anyway - you're 
getting an approximate position (and in that case, the snapped position 
is as good a choice as any other). I think accuracy would usually demand 
you zoom in, whether or not there is a node nearby.

David