Hi Eliot, You can right click in the Author and in the "Select" menu you have "Select content", "Select element" and "Select parent". Keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to these actions from the "Options->Menu shortcut keys" table. They do not work exactly like you specified but you can use all of them to obtain a similar behavior. We'll think about adding another "Select" action with the behavior that you requested. Regards, Radu -- Radu Coravu <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com Eliot Kimber wrote:

In the Arbortext Editor some keystroke would select the content (but not tags) of the element containing the cursor. Subsequent presses would extend the selection up the ancestry by selecting the containing element, its parent, etc.

I used this a lot and I don't see a way to do it in Author mode.

Thanks,

Eliot