Comment 5 for bug 170981

Isn't this feature in exempli gratia:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7669372731.html ,
"Better Node Editing -- One may freely drag, bend, and
stretch a Bezier curve by any point and not only by a node.
Also, one may easily add a new node at any point on the curve."

Magnet and deform tools are available in some applications,
IIRC the implementation in Freehand is pretty useless, but
the Adobe tool is O.K. If you need either of tools, you
should probably search for corresponding RFEs and submit
new, if there are none.