[oXygen-user] go to parent element

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi Lars,

I think this can be added to the Select contextual menu. Current entries 
in that menu are:
Select element
Select content
Select attributes

We can add there Select parent.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
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Lars Huttar wrote:
> George Cristian Bina wrote:
> 
>> Dear Lars,
>>
>> Try the following:
>> Go to the beginning of that element and move outside of it (but not 
>> inside a sibling). Then look in the outliner, the parent is selected 
>> there, you can click on it to select it in the editor.
>> Is that easy enough?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> George
>>
> Thanks for your quick reply. Your suggested method does make it easier, 
> assuming one has the outline view open.
> Personally, I tend not to use the outline view... probably because I 
> have lots of files to show in the Project view.
> 
> Regardless of that, though, I find it much more efficient to be able to 
> do things without shifting to the mouse. Thus I would appreciate a 
> keyboard-accessible method for going to the parent element.
> 
> I realize you can't implement every suggestion. But if this were Emacs 
> (i.e. user-programmable), that's the next command I'd be writing for 
> myself. :-)
> 
> Lars
> 
>>
>> Lars Huttar wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Oxygen team,
>>> A friend recently showed me the go-to-matching-tag (Ctrl+Shift+G)
>>> command in Oxygen. Very handy!
>>>
>>> Let me request another useful command: go-to-parent-(start-)tag.
>>> We have XML documents where some elements have many children, and
>>> there's no easy way (that I've found) to discover (the start tag of) the
>>> parent of a given element, which may be far away in the document.
>>> A suggested key binding would be Alt+LeftArrow.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lars
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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