Nice, quoting myself :-) > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, David Earl wrote: > >>> That would have been high on my list to implement as well... >> >> Why would you want it, when SHIFT+CLICK does this? Or do you want it >> *exactly* half way? If you add a new node, I guess there are two things >> you might want to do next - extend a way from the new node, in which >> case you'd have to change mode, so the cross is less useful, or drag the >> new node to, say, improve a curve, which might be marginally easier if >> you are already in select mode (avoiding one 'S' keypress). > > If you have an old very inaccurate way (let's say the first entered > primary streets here in Germany) and you want to change that to the GPS > track you have. You have to switch dozens of times between S and A to > create nodes, drag them, create more, check them, ... > >> Personally I would prefer to work towards more modeless operation than >> introducing another way of doing the same thing to work around switching >> modes. > > Actually this is the same. Or where do you see the difference between > modeless and everything can be done in one mode. > > Only 1 more step: > - Implement drawing ways in select mode and Add is no longer required and > you have modeless editing. Start drawing mode using a key and ESC to > stop is probably the best way to do this. Is C like "C"reate already > used? > > Should be relatively easy.
After a bit of thinking it is much easier: Adding a listener, which checks <ESC> presses in Add-Modus and switches back to Select-Mode in case <ESC> was pressed. You still have the modes, but that would not affect workflow at all. Who implements it? Ciao -- http://www.dstoecker.eu/ (PGP key available) _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
