[Bug 59320] Split windows in editor to view the same file

[Marcin Kasperski]

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------- Additional Comments From Marcin.Kasperski softax com pl  2004-03-31 13:00 -------
One more vote. Recently I decided to try kdevelop and - although fairly excited  with a lot of its features - abandoned it after 15 minutes due to the lack of this very feature.

An ability to see simultaneously two parts of the same long file seems to me to be absolutely crucial for the programmers editor. There are plenty of use-cases, I'll name just two:
- while writing complicated destructor that's really nice to see the body of related constructor, while writing inline functions that's really nice to see the members declarations, ...
- while editing something somewhere deep I need to add some helper function at the end of the file, add some include on the top etc - then I want to split the window, stay with the focus where I was and go to do what I need in the second pane, then easily return to the main task

Similarly, it is also crucial to be able to see some other related file while editing. For example, while implementing some class that's nice to see its header file somewhere nearby, while operating on complex data structure it's nice to see the structure definition, ...

It's worth noting that it is hard to find any programmers editor without this feature - in fact I searched for it in kdevelop for almost half an hour, being sure that it must exist somewhere, maybe incorrectly placed in menus/toolbars...

. An ability to see some related file too