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I often want to have multiple parts of the code open at once. Sometimes 5-10 different parts of the code (usually not so many as that, but it depends what I'm d
by nicoburns 4y ago
I often want to have multiple parts of the code open at once. Sometimes 5-10 different parts of the code (usually not so many as that, but it depends what I'm doing) so I can flip between them and compare code or copy and paste. Most editors I've used don't have good support for that within a single file (and having 5 tabs with the same name isn't going to make it very easy to tell which is which).
- mbork_pl 4y agoVery good point, though this is really a deficiency of "most editors". ATM I have 300+ files open in my Emacs (which is no wonder given that I work on several projects, and my current Emacs uptime is over 6 days, which is even fairly short). Using tabs is bad enough with 5+ files, tabs with 300+ would be a nightmare. That said, Emacs can show different parts of the same file in several buffers, a feature which I use quite a bit (not every day, but still). And of course I can rename them to something mnemonic (buffer name ≠ file name). So I personally don't find this convincing at all.