Early selection makes it hard to duplicate the last (tagged) node of a way at a specified distance

[alv]

With the recent "early select of way to be extended" (r4539), a use case of mine got more difficult.

Esp. with a power=minor_line way and power=pole nodes; select the last pole, enter add mode to see the distance from the last node to the cursor position (at the bottom status line), hit ctrl+d to duplicate; now I get a duplicate of the whole minor_line, when I had selected the last node only.

The workaround with lots of selections later and "paste tags" is imo a workaround.

[olejorgenb]

Maybe I don't understand the scenario properly, but when you use ctr+d like that, wont the nodes stay disconnected? Are they supposed to be, or do you draw the way again later? I'd think just drawing the way and use utils2 plugin to select the way nodes and tag all would be easier.

Another method that seems to work (again, I might have missunderstood the usecase) is to copy the node you want to work with, enter draw mode and use ctrl+v instead of ctrl+d.

When that's said, there's been other complaints about the change (#7032). If it breaks lots of subtle use-cases I have no problem with the maintainers rolling it back :)

PS: I'm the author of the pacth

[alv]

Yes, I have to draw the way afterwards - I find it easier to place the such nodes first and then draw along the nodes that now have icons visible. Ctrl+v works in this case as a workaround, that's true, even if I then in rare cases need to re-copy something else that I had waiting for paste - but that happens very seldom.

Don't have utils2, but click way + "child selected" works, even if it's several keystrokes.