Should be able to copy & paste anchored lines

• May 31, 2021 - 00:41

Lines that are not anchored to notes can be copy & pasted fairly easily both by CTRL+SHIFT+drag and just using the clipboard.
But slurs/gliss lines etc. that have note-anchors cannot be easily copied.
Hence if I create this:
muse-gliss.png

There's no easy to copy that pattern multiple times, so that both gliss lines are preserved, as necessarily I'm pasting over the anchor note.

Also note a related issue is that a gliss marking like this has a very large target area for selection, basically covering the whole measure, making it very hard to do a range selection of the measure (in fact for the 2nd measure I couldn't find any way of selecting the whole measure). I would expect just the area where something is drawn (with some fudge factor) to be selectable.

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• Jun 2, 2021 - 00:36

BTW the specific behaviour I'd want here is that when copying over existing notes that lines are anchored to, the anchoring should be transferred from the old note to the new note at the same position/pitch.
There are cases where even if the pitch was different you'd still want the line re-anchored, but at least for slurs etc. that could produce some unexpected behaviours if there was a big shift in pitch.

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