How do I draw a standalone arrow?

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Create two nodes, connect the nodes with the desired edge, and finally make the two nodes invisible (by chosing "No Color" as fill color and line color).

yEd is a graph editor and by definition a graph cannot contain "standalone arrows".

Question 3

This makes no sense, what is a node. yEd might be easy for the developers, but BRUTAL for us users

Question 4

It's only just names... yEd uses the terms "node" and "edge" to refer to an "object" and a "connection line," respectively.
The terminology stems from graph theory (mathematics); but it's not dangerous at all ;-).

(Since there are so many different names one can think of instead of "node" and "edge" -- object, rectangle, box, element, vertex, point, etc. and arrow, connection, connection line, line, arc, etc. respectively -- yEd just sticks to the original ones.)

Question 5

You might say you need to click on the source object/node and drag the mouse to the destination node. I understand compsci (and dia and plantuml and mermaid), but the yEd UI uses non standard interface controls (not referring to this, but scroll wheel and as such new users are in a 'wonderland'). Sorry to be edgy.

Question 6

You can change mouse wheel behavior in "File" -> "Preferences", tab "General", setting "Mouse Wheel Behavior".

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