Do you know of any text editors that are dual paned?

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.. so I can text side by side without opening many instances?

Thanks!

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1668071 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44523/text-editor-with-split-screen-option — DK Bose, Sep 03 '18 at 02:38
emacs can split it's screen horizontally, vertically, both, ... . However, as I recall, there is a significant learning curve. — waltinator, Sep 03 '18 at 05:04
You could try ultra edit or 7edit. I do believe they both have that functionality. — Femina Jaffer, Sep 03 '18 at 13:10

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 12 '18 at 19:11

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From my personal experience I can recommend to use Kate (sudo apt-get install kate) - it has many options in View → Split View:

Also you can try JEdit (sudo apt-get install jedit), it allows to have splits in View → Splitting:

or Notepadqq (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq, sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get install notepadqq), it has View → Move/Clone Current Document → Move to Other View option:

or JuffEd (sudo apt-get install juffed-plugins), it has Move to the right panel and Move to the left panel:

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answered Sep 03 '18 at 08:49

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I haven't tried Kate but I hear it is top heavy. I'll give it a try, thanks. – peteubuntu Sep 03 '18 at 12:22

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '18 at 11:51

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Another option is Geany, available in the repositories.

Under Tools, click on Plugin Manager and enable Split Windows. The plugin for enabling split windows comes pre-installed.

You'll see the Split Window option under Tools.

And that's it. Of course, you can choose between horizontal and vertical and drag the splitter to resize panes.

Geany, in 18.04, is a gtk3 application and in 16.04, a gtk2 application. So, if your distro is "GNOME-based", you may prefer it as it pulls in very few dependencies.

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Thank you, I tried geany and liked it but I settled for bluefish as it was a lot more customization. It does have split screen but not sure if that worked however it suited me in different ways. Thank you for your suggestion! – peteubuntu Sep 03 '18 at 12:24

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 12 '18 at 16:50

Can be done in vim. They are called windows (:help windows)

Open new file vertically with :vsplit /path/to/file :vs for short. Use only :vs to open the current buffer in another window (so you can look at the same file in another place)

Open horizontally with :split /path/to/file :sp for short. Using only :sp will open the same file but horizontally

Ctrl-w will cycle through the open windows. :bn will change to the next buffer in a window. (:bp will go to the previous buffer)

To close the active window :close

To dig deeper :help close, :help split, or :help any-command will open the help file in a new window and you can read more about them (:close will close the open window ;) )

How to close vim from the command line? (For the uninitiated.)

Note: The "Tab list" on the top is from the airline plugin with the code below added to my .vimrc

let g:airline#extensions#tabline#enabled = 1 " Enable the list of buffers

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 03 '18 at 16:16

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Atom

Atom is a nice text editor packed with lots of powerful features and extension support, entirely written using Node JS and web technologies.

answered Sep 03 '18 at 16:16

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Do you know of any text editors that are dual paned?

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