irregular behaviour deleting ways while pressing Alt

[malenki]

On ​http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Advanced_Tricks one reads

"3. If you hold down the ALT key while deleting a way, JOSM will keep the nodes of the way"

If one tries it in Josm with ALT+DEL it does not work.
If one tries it in Josm with Josm-Menu,ALT+click on Delete it does work.

[Don-vip]

Here's a patch that fixes the problem. However, is this the best approach ?

[bastiK]

The idea is, that you switch to delete mode first, but the new shortcut would be useful as well.

[malenki]

Now the mod key is ctrl.
Both ways of deleting - that is:

• select way, press ctrl-del
• switch to delete mode, press ctrl and left-click on way to delete

delete the way while keeping its nodes.