I'm just doing the proper thing and creating a new ticket for our previous discussion regarding sneak-to-place here: #564

Repasted here:

My players have been reporting they can no longer make their basic protection stones. When they place down their protection stones, it just gets placed. No messages or anything, meaning the field is NOT being created. I am using sneak-to-place.

Here is my config: http://pastebin.com/6RGY2zrs

It breaks in between versions:
It works: Build #188 (Jan 5, 2013 3:36:58 PM)
It doesn't work: #189 (Jan 5, 2013 3:56:41 PM)

I tried Build #190 where your commit says "Fix for sneak-to-place-fields (fixes #465)", but that doesn't work either.

Ahh, I know what the problem is now.

Something between your builds #188 and #189 changed making it so that no matter what, my players have to type "/ps on" to be able to place fields again, even though I have "off-by-default: true" and "sneak-to-place-field: true" configured.

In other words: the player can place fields once he types "/ps on". I, however, did not want it to function this way which is why I set the following in my config:

off-by-default: true
sneak-to-place-field: true

Something in between those two builds broke this specific config.

Well before the update, the functionality was that it was off by default, and sneak-to-place was meant to temporarily turn it on for you while you were sneaking (you also mention this in your Wiki)

What functionality are you looking to achieve? Off-by-default means your players have to type /ps on to place. That is what is happening now no?

I see. Yes I believe I changed the functionality. Now off-by-default is not necessary. Sneak-to-place should turn it off while standing automatically. (There is also a sneak-to-place flag that can be used in a field-by-field basis that will give this same functionality.)

Got it.