I was wondering what the likelyhood of getting a multi-pane code editor similar to how Photoshop CS4 handles multiple viewable documents at a time with tabs.
I usually have a LOT of documents open at any given time, and very rarely use the preview functions in Webuilder. I also use my monitor in portrait mode, so I've got a lot of vertical space to work with. I would love to be able to split the window into two panes to see two documents at a time (ex: a css file and html/php file). Each pane should allow it's own set of tabs and those tabs should be able to be moved between panes. This would really speed up my workflow as I tend to bounce back and forth between a css doc and other pages a lot during development.
The current tiled view is fine if you have only two documents open, but anything beyond that it gets unwieldy.
Multi-pane Code Editor
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Re: Multi-pane Code Editor
would be nice if you could jump to tabs by hitting ctrl+number. so to get to tab 1, you'd hit ctrl+1, tab two is ctrl+2... that way you could jump around or move the two files you're working on a lot to the #1/#2 position to make jumping easy. textmate works like this and I really enjoy it.
Re: Multi-pane Code Editor
Well, I think the big thing I'm looking for out of this is decent way of working and being able to see two documents at once. While shortcuts are nice, they're not much different than doing a CTRL-TAB or SHIFT-CTRL-TAB to move between documents. The ability to have two different window panes in the editor would be a lot more advantageous I think.
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Re: Multi-pane Code Editor
Currently it is possible to open second pane on the right or on the bottom, but those panes are used only for previewing. I never use this previewing feature, but using other editors I often split editing area horizontally or verticaly in order to edit the same document in two places at the same time.
It would be nice to have such use for the right or bottom pane in WeBuilder; good examples : Komodo editor from http://www.activestate.com and PSPad editor from http://www.pspad.com.
It would be nice to have such use for the right or bottom pane in WeBuilder; good examples : Komodo editor from http://www.activestate.com and PSPad editor from http://www.pspad.com.
Re: Multi-pane Code Editor
I would love to see this. I have a lot of tabs open and sometimes I need to look at both at the same time, but there is no easy way to do that (yes I can manually do it but that is not the same) , also the switch through tabs like firefox does would be nice. Or pressing Ctrl+W to close it.
Re: Multi-pane Code Editor
+1 from mexenon2050 wrote:...also the switch through tabs like firefox does would be nice. Or pressing Ctrl+W to close it.