What about having an option to snapshot a current configuration of screens and 
then save it. This would allow you to drag and size screens into position as 
you wanted and then later retrieve the configuration from the list of 
definitions that were created, perhaps off of a menu selection?

Cheers, bob

On Aug 17, 2015, at 9:24 AM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote:

> While we are on this, another J6 feature I'd like to port is some kind of
> tiling.
> 
> In J6 and earlier, this was important because each edit session was a
> separate window, and it would be common to have several J windows open.
> Tiling was one way to manage this.
> 
> In J8, there are nearly always only two windows, Term and Edit, so there is
> not the same need as before. However, I occasionally want to tile so the
> two windows fill the screen, either horizontally or vertically. This is
> particularly useful when giving presentations, so only J needs to be shown.
> The original state should be remembered so they can be tiled and untiled.
> 
> The question is what are the appropriate commands, and should this be fine
> tuned so that, for example, you could give Term 40% of the screen and Edit
> the rest?
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