Inkscape snapping of endpoints only

Question

I'm working with (dozens of) polylines like this:

I want to connect them but only by their endpoints (with the circular mark). So the most convenient would be to "enable snap" of the end point, not the cusps in the many middle nodes. However I don't see any such option in the "advanced snapping" menu...

Is there one? So far, my only workaround has been to make all nodes smooth, enable snapping of cusps, move paths, then select all nodes again and make all edges straight again... Works, but not so satisfactory!

Answer 1

Edit: I think I may have misunderstood the OP's actual intent here. As @joojaa has commented, looks like the OP wants to apply circular end markers. This can be done in the Fill and Stroke panel: Stroke style, Markers drop down. I'll just leave the rest of my answer here as it directly answers the question about snapping options.

There's no option to snap to end nodes only. Inkscape already has a lot of snapping options, far more than any other vector editor I have ever used, and I can't think of any others that have such an option either. If you still want this, I suppose you could make a feature request.

Anyway, there are a couple of other possibilities I can think of, but I don't really know if they're any more "satisfactory" than what you are currently doing. You can be the judge.

1. Enable Nodes snapping and Cusp Nodes snapping, and deselect all the other node snapping options, then zoom in close to the nodes you want to snap, and move the path until it snaps. This is a very simple solution IMHO.

Or

2. With Nodes and Cusp Nodes snapping enabled, also switch on snapping to Other Points: Object Rotation Centres. Click twice on an object to bring up the rotation handles, and click and drag the Rotation Centre to snap it to an end node. Repeat for another object. Then switch off all Nodes snapping, and finally move one of the paths. The Rotation Centres will snap

An example showing the Object Rotation Centre snapping method