Snap a path to iself

[chionatan]

Let's say I want to create the path shown in the attached image, starting with A, ending with F. After drawing A B and C, I'd like to snap D (and, subsequently, E and F) to the path itself. I tried two solutions, both way do not work properly.

The simple one: just continue drawing, and let inkscape snap the cursor to the same path. NOT WORKING (probably because the path is not created, unless I push Enter)

The complex one: after drawing A B and C, push Enter. Then continue drawing from C (now the first three vertices are real). NOT WORKING (probably because active object is excluded from the ones the Snap tools tries to snap to)

This bug is meant as a Bug report, in case you think this functionality is already available. Or, as a Wishlist item, if you haven't figured out this functionality, yet.

Using Ubuntu 15.10 with Inkscape 0.48.4

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Thanks for taking the time to file a report!

Marking it feature request (nothing in the official documentation about it, so I guess that's not something expected to work with 0.48 or 0.91).

[Nathan Lee (nathan.lee)]

Hi - thanks for reporting this feature request, I've manually migrated it to Inkscape's
new bug tracker on GitLab, and closed it here.

Technically I found a rough workaround, but I don't think you'd be happy with it ;)

You can snap the end node onto the path with the node tool, then continue the path
creation, starting and stopping too many times.

Please feel free to file new bugs about the issues you're seeing at
http://inkscape.org/report.

Moved to: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/381
Closed by: https://gitlab.com/nathanal