Connected entities are disconnected after copy and paste

[pmailkeey]

Copying and pasting - if you select several joined items (sharing points) as a group, copy and paste them elsewhere, the pasted items are no longer connected and can be moved individually. I guess this will create an error of more than one node in the same place unless things are reconnected.

[bhousel]

Yeah I can see how this would be an issue. I'm thinking if a user copies a bunch of stacked up nodes with uninteresting tags, we should only paste a single node.

[pmailkeey]

On 12 April 2015 at 04:26, Bryan Housel notifications@github.com wrote:

Yeah I can see how this would be an issue. I'm thinking if a user copies a
bunch of stacked up nodes with uninteresting tags, we should only paste a
single node.

Not keen on 'data loss'. Whatever's copied should be pasted as is - if
objects are joined at nodes then they should paste joined up too. That's
the issue.

[bhousel]

Oh, I think I misunderstood...
You are saying if a user selects some points that are connected and copy/pastes them, they should stay connected as a way?

Copying this:

Should result in this:

Not this:

Is that right?

[pmailkeey]

Good job you didn't change the issue number as well ;)

Yes, that's right and this (2 squares)

should paste like this:

and not like this:

i.e. shared nodes of the two squares remain shared, not as 2 separate squares with nodes in the same place but not connected.

[jfirebaugh]

This is out of scope for iD.

[slhh]

@jfirebaugh I'd agree on copying of segments beind out of scope. It is rarely required and other methods to acceive the result exist.
The original was describing a copy and paste bug which still exists and seem to be quite valid. The comments seem to be a series of misunderstandings. "Copy segments" is only what @bhousel has made out of the original issue due to misunderstanding.

[jfirebaugh]

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying.