Note this is a beta feature. this is experimental.
The little bit that is there works. But many,many, many things have not
yet been implemented. => So if you decide to test/use it, don't complain
about the missing bits.
Compiling Lazarus (SVN / Snapshot) with -dSynDualView allows you to
open a 2nd window for any open source file. The 2nd Window can be
edited, and all edits made in one window, are also done in the other
window (they edit the same source).
The extra Window(s) are very basic yet: (do NOT report any of those as bug)
- no statusbar
- no contextmenu
- position and size is *not* savable (see below)
- many keyboard shortcuts not working
- no codetools support at all (no code completion, no jumps, no nothing)
- no code templates
- no search / replace / incremental-search / ...
- no "copy word on nothing selected"
- many others missing
- no session, the IDE does not remember if you had any extra views open
The Window however does:
- show and edit a correctly highlighted version of your code.
- undo works cross both views (changes made in one window, can be
undone from the other => this is correct, since the changes happened in
both windows)
- has it's own caret position
- has it's own selection, which is *not* reset by changes in the other
window
- has it's own folds (you can fold nodes independent of the other window)
=> however neither caret-pos, nor folds, nor anything else is saved in
your session => it will all be lost when you close the window, or change
projects
(text changes are saved (of course))
- drag/drop selected text between windows. works partly, the source
window starts/keeps scrolling while you are over the target win
Window position/size / missing statusbar / etc
=> All this is not likely to be fixed soon => the idea is to wait what
happens to IDE docking
Therefore this feature will be beta for a considerable time
Martin
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