Feature Suggestion: Anchor selection

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Hi! Early today I was thinking that would be nice if one could select anchors and multiple anchors clicking and dragging with the selection tool.

Maybe this could be possible using a modifier key like alt + click and drag to not mess with paths and nodes.

What do you think?

Regards.

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Rectangular selections with the option key already exist, they select on-curve nodes rather than handles. I had a separate select tool once for selecting anchors. Maybe I can still dig it up.

You know, you can move from one to the next anchor by pressing the tab key?

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Oh yes, I didn’t remember that function when I wrote the post, maybe with cmd? haha.
I know about the tab switching but still not the same, thanks anyway.

Best regards.

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Hello is there any update for this feature?

It would be wonderful if we just select all the anchors with cmd + click drag

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We need a compelling reason to build that into such a low-level function. What do you want to achieve?

  • Select all anchors to see their names? Press Cmd-A repeatedly until (also) the anchors are selected.
  • Select all anchors to move them all at once? Try SelectionPalette by @danielgamage, it is available for free in Window > Plugin Manager.
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This plugin might do a lot of work. Thanks for sharing.
Suggested feature might speed up fine tuning process while editing complex shapes.
Example is attached.ezgif-3-003eba60ca88

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Ah, you want to only select handles (off-curve nodes). Anchors are a different thing and why there was some confusion.

One way to do what you want, right now:

  • Click-Drag to select some nodes, as you do at the beginning of your animated gif.
  • Press and hold Shift & Option keys to click-drag another box around the nodes you want to deselect.

The Shift-drag is indicating to add to the current selection.
The Option key indicates to only select on-curve nodes. For on-curve nodes already in the selection, those will be deselected.

Hope that makes sense.

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Yes you are right! I always forget those are not anchors. Sorry for misunderstanding.
Thank you so much your suggestion is great!