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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

That was my thought: sort of a push-tool/pop-tool.

> On 14 Jun 2019, at 14:36, Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-06-14 07:59, Jeff Young wrote:
>> My plan had been to support both two-step (first selects tool; second
>> draws object) and immediate (always draws) actions, and let the user
>> assign the hotkey to the one they prefer.
>> But I’m discovering a bunch of things that are unsettling about it.
>> It hard to discover if we chose the default option that’s not the one
>> you wanted.  Which actions does the Place menu show?  It kind of has
>> to do a select-tool action, but that’s inconsistent if the tool is
>> already selected.  And to make matters worse, you’d really like to
>> show the immediate hotkeys there because that’s the first place people
>> will look.
>> Then I had an epiphany: it’s easy enough to distinguish select-tool
>> from draw-object contextually (did they use the menu or not?); the
>> real differentiator between two-step and immediate is whether or not
>> the tool remains selected after the object is drawn.
>> So how about if we add a preference for that instead?
> 
> 
> Would the preference support returning to the current tool after the action is complete?  As in, I am using the routing tool but then I want to move a footprint.  Can I use the immediate hotkey to move the footprint and then still be in the router tool after placing the footprint?
> 
> -Seth