Question about split-views in KDevelop

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Mon Apr 13 03:48:22 UTC 2009


On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:17:52PM +0300, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> Hey,
> Just out of curiosity, does somebody really really needs to be able to have 
> more than 2 split views in each direction?
> 
> Like, wouldn't split window configurations like these be enough:
> 1) two editors split left/right 
> a | b
> 
> 2) two editors split top/bottom
> a
> --
> b
> 
> 3) cases 1 and 2 combined
> a | b
> -----
> c | d
> 
> or
> a | b
> --|--
> c | d
> 
> 
> I had a lot of fun writing the code to support unlimited splitting in all 
> directions in all possible combinations, but I'm wondering now whether that 
> was really necessary.

Yes, it's necessary. I use a double horizontal split quite often

Example:

a
--
b
--
c


I don't think I'd be able to make the switch to KDevelop full time w/o that.

Thanks
--
Matt




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