GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 674568
re-suggesting ability to split a file view with vertical windows
Last modified: 2014-08-12 20:39:47 UTC
One of the nicest features of "textedit" from Sun was the ability to split the viewing window for a file into multiple vertical windows (could then look at several components calling each other in one view). This feature was suggested long ago by me, and the developer said I would see it in 3.x+. It is really nice for code work and should be considered again.
+1 for that It's already chosen (idea 1) here https://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Multiviews, but as of 3.4.1 still not completely implemented.
The only concern I have is if/when implemented with gedit, It may be more confusing that the original I saw in James Goslings textedit (Sun). Gedit does multiple files in one program space (by default) where textedit has one source file per program instance. You would have 5 or 10 instances of textedit each with up to 32 individually scroll-able windows into the file being viewed in the instance (I never exceeded 4). I really cannot image one worktool with 5 source files - each with a separate view. Of course. Right now I frequently bring up several separate gedit instances so I can concurrently view source side by side so the issue would not be a problem if used like this. Sometimes you want side by side viewing of two or more source files, sometimes you want multiple views into one. Both can achieved if this is implemented. Thanks for choosing to implement the idea.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 141487 ***