Kicad used to behave like this:
If you hover over V+, and press ‘del’, then the whole dangling track would disapear…Now, only the segment between bends will be deleted…I have to track down each part of the track and get rid of it by subsequent presses of the ‘del’ key.
Also, cleanup tracks and vias used to find this lonely track and delete it…Now, cleanup tracks and vias doesn’t even notice this V+ net and simply leaves it as it is.
Is this a bug, a change or a feature? And how do I get it working like it used to (should :))?
Select one segment and then use hotkey “u” (select single track) or “i” (select all connected).
Or right click -> select and choose the appropriate option from this submenu.
Edit: you do not need to select a segment first. You can just use the u and i shortcut by hovering your mouse above the track. (possibly press ESC first to get out of an active tool first)
Possibly make sure if there was not simply a change in the shortcut assignment so use the right click -> select -> single track way of activating this tool.
This is likely an unintentional regression. Please report it so that we can triage/fix the issue.
As an aside, we have intentionally changed this behavior to be “Select Single Track” (first ‘u’), expand selection (second ‘u’ on the same segment). This is along the lines of single-, double-, triple- click to expand existing selections.
