Keyboard shortcut to select next anchor point along path (incl shift+ to select more than one)
Implement keyboard shortcuts to select the next anchor point along a path. So if I have selected one anchor point, I can hit that shortcut, and I will have moved to the next anchor point along the path.
Also include the option to shift+{shortcut} to select more than one anchor point.
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EG:
- Select an anchor point (direct selection).
- Hit your shortcut (random example: cmd+.) and your selection has jumped one anchor point along the path.
- Do it again, and you jump one anchor point further along the path.
- Hit the second shortcut (cmd ¨) and your selection jumps the other direction, back along the path.
- Hit the shortcut including shift, and you have selected both the one you originally had and the one next to it.
- Works both ways - to move "along" the path and "backwards". -
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The particular circumstances that prompted me to post this was when I was working with a vector that was traced from a raster image. There are little anchor points all over the place when you zoom in, and sometimes it has put them in quite a zigzag. Being able to "step" along the anchor points would make it much easier to see where the path is actually going, and make it quicker and easier to choose which to delete, to simplify the path and work with it in various ways.
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Definitely yes, voted.
I know that PathScribe plugin does it, including shrink/grow, but it allows to select a next/previous point with a click only if you have one point only selected. One the other hand, it allows to set a custom point selection using pattern index.
Can you provide some mockups to clearly illustrate the way you think it should work and tell more about the task you want to solve with it?
