Well, I understand your confusion, the problem is, that this behavior
is because of program design:
If you hit Ctrl+L or Ctrl+A, an object is immediately created and
therefore you can edit types or options.
If you hit Ctrl+P, no object is created - you are just switched to the
point insertion mod
A quirk of Xtherion that still gets me from time to time is that the
behaviour of point data entry seems to be differ to the behaviour when
entering lines or areas, at least within Windows OS.
Typically, I decide that, for example, I want to draw some lines of type
rock-border, so my sequence wi
