Is there a keyboard shortcut that will collapse all nodes and child nodes within an xml document that you are editing.

I have a xml file that is several layers deep and has thousands of childnodes off of the root node.

I can get the root node to collapse but it doesn't collapse all the children.

Viewing and editing is a pain with everything expanded.

Thanks in advance! 

Hi,

Press Ctrl + m + m in front of root node.

This will help u...

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

It does collapse the root.

It doesn't collapse all the children in the root.

Collapsing every child recursively of every root so I can open just what I need is very time consuming to do manually.

No easy answer for this. If you have the time and ability... 

Perhaps you could create yourself a new Visual Studio Macro. Click View - Other Windows - Macro Explorer.

In the Sample project, look in the VSEditor file. There are two methods that you can use/borrow code from to create your own macro:

• Sub OutlineCode()
• Sub CollapseElt(ByVal elt As EnvDTE.CodeElement, ByVal elts As EnvDTE.CodeElements, ByVal loc As Integer)

The code is in your language, VBMan!

Good luck!

CTRL+A, then CTRL+M+M

Alternatively, if there is just a specific section of nodes you wish to collapse/expand, you can highlight just that section then do CTRL+M+M

does anyone know if there is a keyboard cheetsheet anywhere. the CTRL+M+M trick will save me hours editing a confif thats 44k lines.

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