Can I / How to lock a portion of a track so it doesn't move when draging

[JohnRob]

Kicad 5.99, see version info at the end of the post

I’ve had many occasions where I’ve set one section of a trace to where I want it, then go and try to drag another. The first section jumps.

I’m in the shove mode but the highlight mode seems the same.

For example in the first screenshot I:

1. right click on the white section and select lock.
2. try to drag the red section.
3. the white section jumps to a location I do not wish it to be. See second screenshot.

It appears the right click is either not working or I’m not using it correctly or it does something else.

Any suggestions:

Initial state: I wish to move the red section away from the adjacent pad.

After draging the red section:

Application: Pcbnew

Version: (5.99.0-3436-g89dcc46898), release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.0.5
libcurl/7.71.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1g (Schannel) zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.7 libidn2/2.3.0 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0

Platform: Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Sep 20 2020 09:05:52
wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8)
Boost: 1.73.0
OCE: 6.9.1
Curl: 7.71.0
ngspice: 32
Compiler: GCC 10.2.0 with C++ ABI 1014

Build settings:
KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=OFF
KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON

[eelik]

Please add the example and comment for example here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/5448.

[paulvdh]

In KiCad V5 the l (ascii 0x6C between k and m) locks tracks.