Bug 143918

Summary:	[wish] being able to split editing window
Product:	[Applications] kile	Reporter:	Alexander <alejck>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michel Ludwig <michel.ludwig>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ansa.ansa, bernhard.kleine, budinero, didier.herisson, houstontyoung, john, michael.scheffenacker, siglesi, tprotopopescu
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Alexander 2007-04-07 00:44:14 UTC

Version:           1.9.3 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc-4.1.1 
OS:                Linux

Thanks for making such great software. Ability to split the editing screen (e.g. emacs style) I think would be  a great added functionality. I often free-write in one document and then copy sections into a clean, more structured document, or copy sections from other documents into new documents, and here a split editing screen (i.e. multiple kate-parts next to each other) would be a great feature.

Comment 1 Giorgio Corani 2007-05-01 11:20:26 UTC

As a Kile user since a few weeks, I like the editor and I think this feature would be really a useful one.

best regards

Giorgio Corani

Comment 2 bkleine 2011-12-05 22:08:18 UTC

I very much support the feature request. I like the project organisation by kile and would like to have the emacs/kate feature with two and more parallel editing windows.

B.Kleine

Comment 3 artirum 2013-05-17 00:14:41 UTC

This is a feature I really use too much. I used kate to write down scripts in R code and was very used to it, but I really miss it in Kile. It's so much helpful to be able to copy parts of latex code a region of the document that is far from the code currently being written.

Comment 4 Tudor Protopopescu 2013-09-29 16:01:42 UTC

I also would find this feature incredibly useful. I often write quite long documents and when redrafting I often refer to the previous version, having the two versions side by side  is much better than switching tabs. I have taken to having a Kile window open with the new version and a Kate window with the old version beside it to gain this functionality. I also use this trick to be able to see different parts of the same document at the same time.

Comment 5 houstontyoung 2013-11-26 11:14:52 UTC

I would also *love* this feature.  I frequently write two versions of an exam for my students, and it would be much easier to have the two files side-by-side so I can edit them in parallel.  

If possible, the ability to synchronize scrolling between the two editing windows would be very useful, too.

Comment 6 Michael Scheffenacker 2014-07-04 12:25:42 UTC

I also support this whish strongly. The split view works so well in Kate und would be a big advantage in Kile too.

Comment 7 john 2015-01-05 11:39:41 UTC

I'd LOVE that feature!!!

Comment 8 Ansa 2018-09-22 07:27:48 UTC

I am somewhat confused about the relationship between kile and kate. I know that kile uses kate as its editor component, but some of my favourite features of kate are missing in kile - such as the split view discussed in this thread, but also the "multiline tab bar" plugin. Could you explain where to start if I would like to port a kate feature to kile, or if these features would have to be implemented fully independently in kile?

Comment 9 John Scott 2019-03-08 23:07:57 UTC

*** Bug 206527 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***