Oxygen XML Author Eclipse plugin includes a variety of keyboard shortcuts that allow you to select
content in Text mode. These include numerous standard continuous
selection possibilities that are common to many text editors.
Standard Continuous Selection Shortcuts
- Ctrl + A (Meta + A on
macOS)
- Selects all content in the document.
- Shift + Left/Right Arrow Keys
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it one character at
a time in the direction that you press the arrow keys.
- Shift + Up/Down Arrow Keys
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it one line at a
time in the direction that you press the arrow keys.
- Ctrl + Shift + Left/Right Arrow Keys (Meta
+ Shift + Left/Right Arrow Keys on macOS)
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it one word at a
time in the direction that you press the arrow keys.
- Shift + Home
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it to the beginning
of the current line (on macOS, it extends to the beginning of the document).
- Shift + End
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it to the end of
the current line (on macOS, it extends to the end of the document).
- Ctrl + Shift + Home
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it to the beginning
of the document.
- Ctrl + Shift + End
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it to the end of
the document.
- Shift + PageUp
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it up one screen
page.
- Shift + PageDown
- Begins a continuous selection at the cursor position and extends it down one screen
page.
- Double-Click
- Selects certain text, depending on the position of the click in the document. See
Smart
Editing: Double-Click for the specifics.
- Triple-Click
- Selects entire regions of text, depending on the position of the click in the
document. See
the Smart
Editing: Triple-Click for the specifics.
- Selects the entire element at the current cursor position.
- Selects the entire content of the element at the current cursor position, excluding
the start and end tag. Performing this action repeatedly will result in the selection
of the content of the ancestor of the currently selected element content.
- Selects all the attributes of the element at the current cursor position.
- Selects the entire parent element at the current cursor position.