Pressing shift key during drawing line causes red line to disappear

[mkoniecz]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Draw nodes (A) mode
2. Press on editing area
3. Move mouse
4. Press shift key

What is the expected result?

Way becomes locked to some regular orientation (ideally horizontal/vertical/maybe also 45 degree angle) - I think that it worked this way

What happens instead?

Red line disappears

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible.

Tested on two different computers (mine and macbook pro 10.15.6)

Relative:URL: ^/trunk
Repository:UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
Last:Changed Date: 2020-08-07 18:58:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Aug 2020)
Revision:16853
Build-Date:2020-08-08 01:30:49
URL:https://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (16853 en_GB) Linux Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Memory Usage: 248 MB / 976 MB (141 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 11.0.8+10-post-Ubuntu-0ubuntu120.04, Ubuntu, OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM
Look and Feel: javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
Screen: :0.0 1366x768 (scaling 1.0x1.0)
Maximum Screen Size: 1366x768
Best cursor sizes: 16x16 -> 16x16, 32x32 -> 32x32
Java package: openjdk-11-jre:amd64-11.0.8+10-0ubuntu1~20.04
Java ATK Wrapper package: libatk-wrapper-java:all-0.37.1-1
libcommons-logging-java: libcommons-logging-java:all-1.2-2
fonts-noto: fonts-noto:-
Dataset consistency test: No problems found

Plugins:
+ buildings_tools (35500)
+ measurement (35405)
+ reverter (35499)
+ todo (30306)

[Klumbumbus]

Replying to mkoniecz:

Way becomes locked to some regular orientation (ideally horizontal/vertical/maybe also 45 degree angle) - I think that it worked this way

I don't think so. In which josm version does it work this way? I checked version 15628 from begging of the year, same behavior.
With that bahavior you can quickly end drawing a way and at the same time add a new single node.
Angle snapping is activated by pressing "A" again in draw mode.

[mkoniecz]

I don't think so.

Is there even such behavior in JOSM? Maybe I got confused - I remembered it from a different program and assumed that because JOSM is great it also includes this feature?

[stoecker]

Pressing Shift, Ctrl and so on causes different "continue" methods for line drawing. I.e. skip a segment, make segment, but draw a new line and so on. See docs for exact details. As Klumbumbus says the snapping mode is activated in a different way.