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 .

[Klumbumbus]

Ticket #11199 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.

[brycenesbitt]

I ask for reconsideration of this ticket: it seems easy, non-confusing, and useful. Thanks.
Until then I will search for "-selected" when I need this feature.

[stoecker]

See comment 4.

[Klumbumbus]

Replying to stoecker:

• 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

Documented at Help/MainToolbar and Help/Menu/Selection.

[richlv]

I'm reopening this one to ask for inclusion in the menu by default.

Over the years I have again and again searched for "josm invert selection" - it is that non-obvious and non-easy-to-remember :)

Edit: so why I decided to reopen this one finally.
Just lost some 40 minutes of mapping because I wanted to purge all but a modified relation, to verify it more. Reverting selection was so inconvenient I accidentally purged all my work (and yes, accidentally cleared the undo buffer).

[Klumbumbus]

Closed as duplicate of #18586.

[richlv]

Just came back to say thank you for adding it in the menu, was a happy user of that entry again today :)