Oxygen XML Editor allows you to configure the appearance of the
caret (text
cursor) in the
author mode editor. To set caret navigation
preferences,
open the
Preferences dialog box and go to . The following options are available:
- Highlight elements near caret - When this option is selected, the
element containing the caret is highlighted. You can use the color picker to choose the
color of the highlight.
- Show caret position tooltip - Oxygen XML Editor uses tool tips in Author mode to indicate the
position of the caret 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 caret 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 caret is placed within each of the
underlying XML elements between two blocks of text. (The caret 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 caret 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 caret does not stop
at these positions, but jumps from one text line to another, similar to how the caret
behaves in a word processor.
- Arrow keys move the caret 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 caret in the
reading direction. When this option is not selected, pressing the right arrow will simply
move the caret to the right, regardless of the text direction.