# Show all dashed wires of a flow through a keyboard shortcut

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-all-dashed-wires-of-a-flow-through-a-keyboard-shortcut/12231>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [14 June 2019 11:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-all-dashed-wires-of-a-flow-through-a-keyboard-shortcut/12231 "2019-06-14T11:38:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beevelop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/beevelop/32/9336_2.png) [@Beevelop](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Beevelop)\
**Post date:** [14 June 2019 11:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-all-dashed-wires-of-a-flow-through-a-keyboard-shortcut/12231/1 "2019-06-14T11:38:15Z")

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In some projects, we rely on Link nodes quite heavily. With the editor changes in the recent past, it already improved a lot, to understand the connection between nodes (especially through the dashed wires).

As of right now, the dashed wires are only visible when selecting a respective Link node. It would be quite helpful if there was a shortcut to display all dashed wires in the current flow (e.g. by pressing Shift or Alt).

If this conflicts with existing shortcuts, it might also be helpful to expose an API to toggle the visibility of those wires.

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**Author:** ![knolleary](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/knolleary/32/3_2.png) [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)\
**Post date:** [14 June 2019 12:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-all-dashed-wires-of-a-flow-through-a-keyboard-shortcut/12231/2 "2019-06-14T12:02:17Z")

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Hi @Beevelop - that sounds a reasonable thing to have. I've put it on the backlog to look at.

If anyone want to have a go at tackling it, let me know and I can give you some pointers as to how we'd want to do it.

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**Author:** ![Beevelop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/beevelop/32/9336_2.png) [@Beevelop](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Beevelop)\
**Post date:** [17 June 2019 13:43 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/show-all-dashed-wires-of-a-flow-through-a-keyboard-shortcut/12231/3 "2019-06-17T13:43:33Z")

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Thank you @knolleary for the quick response. If you can give me a few hints, on were to start for this feature, we might be able to tackle this in the next sprint and open a PR for that.