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: