Have you ever been doing path manipulations in inkscape, and needed to select nodes in a path in order, yet it is too time consuming or tedious to select them the ways you normally do? When editing a path using inkscape’s path editing tool, the most common ways to select multiple nodes is either hold shift and click each individual node:
or to click and rubber band select the nodes that you require:
But what if you have too many nodes to select them individually, or the rubber band box selects more nodes than you need? Well, using a mouse with a scroll wheel, you can select nodes in a path in inkscape by:
- Clicking on a node with the path tool.
- Keep the pointer hovered over the node
- Hold down the control key, and wheel the scroll wheel up. Inkscape will select the next nodes in the path:
inkscape tutorials blog 
What if you don’t have a mouse?
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I don’t think there is a way to do this without a mouse or trackpad. Most trackpads now have some sort of scroll funtionality (two finger scroll or a scroll area on the right). Those work well with this feature.
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Instead of scrolling press page up
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Good
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Wohoo thank you!!!!!!!!
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Awesome ! Thanks. Actually the Step 1 can even be removed, you just need to hover over a node and start scrolling while holding Ctrl.
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thank you!
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