Bug 67943

Summary: two column view in kwrite/kate
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: mail
Component: kwriteAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex, ivo
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description mail 2003-11-12 00:17:01 UTC 
Version:           4.1 (using KDE 3.1.4)
Installed from:     (testing/unstable)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.2 20030908 (Debian prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.22

What I would like to have in kwrite is a two column view of one file. So the upper part is at the left and the lower part on the right. 
Most of the times the screen is not high enough, right? So you have to scroll up and down instead of maximizing the window and switch to two column view. This way you get twice the screen height effectively.
Is there any texteditor out there which can do that?
Comment 1 Jesse 2003-11-12 00:23:43 UTC 
So you want to be able to 'split' the view?  Kate allows you to split the view horizontally and vertically (like you want) any number of times.  Kwrite uses the same code as Kate.  Either the same file can be used in each view or you can have each view contain it's own file.
Comment 2 Hamish Rodda 2003-11-12 07:42:46 UTC 
I think we're talking about cursor synchronisation across several views.  I like the idea, may take a look at it post-3.2...
Comment 3 mail 2004-05-10 21:15:53 UTC 
To make it more clear what I mean: The file has 100 lines, the upper 50 lines are in the left view, the lower 50 lines are in the right view. So now when I am in line 50 und press cursor down, the active line changes from "bottom left" to "top right" and I am in line 51. But the two views themselves are not changed. I hope that's what you mean by "cursor synchronisation across several views".
Comment 4 Sebastian Pipping 2007-08-30 23:10:00 UTC 
Cool idea! How do we make that usable?
Comment 5 Martin Köbele 2008-08-05 06:03:13 UTC 
works beautifully in kate 3.1 (kde 4.1)

thanks!
Comment 6 Ivo Anjo 2008-12-30 19:50:41 UTC 
Is this fixed? Kate doesn't really do what was asked: you can have two views, but they are disconnected; that I think the reporter asked was that you could have two views that are linked as if they were one, where the cursor moves between them as if they were one, and scroll should scroll them both.

The idea seems cool, especially for today's widescreen monitors.
Comment 7 Dominik Haumann 2008-12-31 19:33:32 UTC 
It's not fixed/implemented. Either close as WONTFIX because noone will implement it, or let it live as feature request :)