[Lazarus] Ideas for the editor

[Flávio Etrusco]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Georg Vollnhals <heliflyer at arcor.de> wrote:
> Marc Weustink schrieb:
>
>
> > Mattias Gärtner wrote:
>  >
>  >> Zitat von Damien Gerard <milipili at shikami.org>:
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>> Le Apr 22, 2008 à 2:37 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho a écrit :
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Damien Gerard
>  >>>> <milipili at shikami.org> wrote:
>  >>>>
>  >>>>> Is there a way to open multiple source editors ?
>  >>>>>
>  >>>> You can open the second file with a different editor, like kwrite or
>  >>>> gedit or notepad++.
>  >>>>
>  >>> But I would like to use the Code explorer :)
>  >>>
>  >> Do you want to _see_ two different source positions at the same time, or is it
>  >> sufficient to switch quickly between two different source positions?
>  >>
>  >
>  > Sometimes when working in delphi I need to move/copy some code from some
>  > class I wrote before. In some cases I open a second editor window of the
>  > same source and put that on a second monitor.
>  > When nestructuring things this is a nice feature. In case of Lazarus
>  > sometimes I need this too and open the source in a separate editor.
>  > Disadavantage is that the source isn't updated and that it takes more
>  > time to find the file (in delphi it's just view-new edit window, and the
>  > current source is displayed in a second notebook)
>  >
>  > Marc
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>  >
>  Hi,
>
>  I want to back this. Lazarus' editor is much more advanced than that of
>  my old Delphi times but having 2 windows of the same source-file openend
>  side-by-side is one of the Delphi features I really miss.
>
>  I used this a lot not only to check two depending source positions at
>  the same time but for copying code snipplets from one position to the
>  other - if you want to do that several times it is much easier to handle.
>
>  Thank you very much in advance for thinking about how difficult it would
>  be to implement such a feature.
>
>  Regards
>
>  Georg (Bremen)
>

It's actually not that difficult to implement and "upstream" SynEdit
has had this for a long time.

Cheers,
Flávio