Oxygen XML Editor allows you to configure the appearance of the cursor in the
Author mode editor. To set cursor
navigation preferences,
open the
Preferences dialog box and go to . The following options are available:
- Highlight elements near cursor - When this option is selected, the
element containing the cursor is highlighted. You can use the color picker to choose the
color of the highlight.
- Show cursor position tooltip - Oxygen XML Editor uses tool tips in Author mode
to indicate the position of the cursor in the element structure of the underlying
document. Depending on context, the tool tips may show the current element name or the
names of the elements before and after the current cursor position.
- Show location tooltip on mouse move - When this option is
selected, Oxygen XML Editor displays Location Tooltips when you are editing the document in certain
tags display modes (Inline Tags, Partial Tags, No Tags) and the mouse pointer is moved
between block elements.
- Quick up/down navigation - By default, when you navigate using
the up and down arrow keys in Author mode, the cursor is placed
within each of the underlying XML elements between two blocks of text. (The cursor turns
horizontal when it is between blocks of text.) For instance, between a list item in one
section and the title in a following sections, the cursor might stop several times in the
underlying structure: the list item, the list, the paragraph, the section, and the root
element between sections, the new section, and finally in the title. Any one of these
location is a place you might want to insert new content. When this option is selected,
however, the cursor does not stop at these positions, but jumps from one text line to
another, similar to how the cursor behaves in a word processor.
- Arrow keys move the cursor in the writing direction - This setting
determines how the left and right arrow keys behave in Author mode
for bidirectional (BIDI) text. When this option is selected, the right arrow key advances
the cursor in the reading direction. When this option is not selected, pressing the right
arrow will simply move the cursor to the right, regardless of the text direction.