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> Autoconneting a new path to the endpoint of an old one, is not necessarily 
> a bad thing. Except there should be a way to temprarily disable this 
> "stickyness" (by pressing a key combination of some sort)

It should be the exception, not the default. The keypress should be
required to *cause* this behavior, not to prevent it. I far more often
need to have coinciding endpoints of separate paths than need to have
them joined. Besides, it is just illogical for the *default* behavior of
the pen to be that it affects *unselected* paths. The Pen should *never*
affect an unselected path unless the user explicitly tells it to (by way
of a key press).

Certainly it should be convenient to join paths. You shouldn't have to,
for example, tediously select endpoints for it to happen; and you should
be able to join more than one open path at a time.

Illustrator gets it backward: It's pen jumps in and insists that two
coincident endpoints should join, even when one of the paths is
unselected; yet it is a royal pain to join two selected paths. And to
join more than two, you have to resort to a third party plug-in.

JET