expose "invert selection" in edit menu

[richlv]

it would be nice to add "invert selection" in the edit menu. it is not that advanced to require the highly obscure searching for -selected :)

[richlv]

any chance for this to be considered ? i spent again some 5 minutes trying to find it in the menus and hitting "i"... only to search for it and again find it in a page "JOSM/Advanced Tricks".

inverting a selection is not an advanced trick (or rather, shouldn't be ;) )

[akks]

Why do your need to select all the objects except selected? This feature is easy to insert in Selection menu (Utilsplugin2), but I can not imagine obvious reason to do it. Maybe it is better to add custom search button for -selected in toolbar (it can be done in preferences)?

[richlv]

purge everything but some region;
purge everything but housenumbers, then delete all housenumbers that don't have a specific source tag on them (because at that point i know for sure that they are duplicates);
use josm to prepare waypoints by selecting a small subset of ones that i want... and then delete the rest ;)

so it's both for direct osm work and every now and then for custom tasks as well. i have needed that often enough, and some quick discussion on irc some time ago revealed that other mappers also have been looking for such an option unsuccessfully.

[stoecker]

Simply add a custom search button in toolbar. I don't think this is something needed by people who aren't able to setup such a button themselves.

How to do:

• Go to toolbar settings
• Add search to toolbar
• Modify the newly added search entry by giving it a name, the expression and maybe an image

[akks]

I have also proposed a patch to speed-up adding custom search buttons: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/6974 .