I have tried now even a 4th variant: merge selection created a new empty layer and merged the selection, unfortunately this also duplicated the (unselected) ways of the selected nodes and also other nodes part of these ways, which also hadn't been selected. As this seems clearly a bug, I have opened a ticket here: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/10327#ticket
cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev