In properties and memberships, not all items can be selected at once

[anonymous]

As the subject says. This is important for removing all tags at once.

Use Case: The user needs a new line, that is connected to a road, but is not part of it, but JOSM creates it as an extension. The user then breaks the line, and is left with two lines, the original road and the short extension. The user wants to remove all the tags from the short line efficiently. The user wishes to select all, or use ctrl-a, and then hit the delete button or press the delete key on the keyboard.

[xeen]

In the latest version it's possible to hit the delete button multiple times to remove all tags. It's not perfect but eases things a lot. Implementing "select all" has the downside of the delete function taking advance of this (which is bad UI, too).

Please close the bug if you think the new delete feature is suitable enough.

Oh and by the way: If you do not want JOSM to re-use an existing way, press the ALT key while drawing and it will make a new way from the selected node.

[joshdoe]

There is now a patch for this in #6883.