Plain text attribute editing instead of table cell based editing

[anonymous]

The table cell based editing of attributes is a click-marathon mess.

Copy and pasting plain text key-value pairs is much more convenient than he existing means of cpying multiple kv pairs.

[GerdP]

Did you try it?
I can use copy on a string like highway=residential, select one or more objects, and use Ctrl+V to paste. If that doesn't help please describe more precisely what you are missing.

[anonymous]

That works, great.

I didn't try, admittedly, to past into the void, with an object selected, but without any UI widget selected. Deems quite counterintuitive or a not easy to discover functionality. I tried clicking every are square-mm of the "Tags / Membership" panel, the input element there (whose function I have not researched yet (search? edit? single item, multiple-k=v-items?), as it will require trial-and-error discovery), and added value cells. To no avail.

While it certainly provides added value to be able to paste into multiple objects at once (if I understand correctly), it misses easy editing of just pasted (and thus appended, not merged) key=value pairs using simple text editor keystrokes. iD-Editor does it right if you toggle the properties display from "list" to "text".

[skyper]

Think the action you are looking for is Paste Tags. This action could be offered in the context menu of the Tags/Membership panel.

[GerdP]

I didn't try it but maybe the comfort0 plugin also helps you.