Re: spacial

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 13:14 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:13, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 07:05 +0200, Daniel Borgmann wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 23:53, Jerry Haltom wrote:
> > > > > That doesn't make much sense, though.  It's quite useful to have two
> > > > > copies of the same file open, perhaps with different edits, to be saved
> > > > > to different locations or used as temporaries.
> > > > 
> > > > The tabs defiantly need an option to go. *I* would much rather have each
> > > > text file opened in a separate app, but I realize a lot of people like
> > > > tabs, so the option should be there.
> > > 
> > > FWIW, I absolutely second that. I want to use a spatial text editor, MDI
> > > interfaces make me want to scream. So badly that I wrote my own
> > > semi-spatial text editor with Mono which does the job for me, but I
> > > don't think it's good enough to release it yet (it's also missing the
> > > critical functionality of making sure that a document is only open
> > > once). 
> > >
> > as someone already said, this does not make any sense. I am myself all
> > day opening different views of the same file, side by side. Having an
> > editor which does not allow that makes absolutely no sense for me.
> 
> Actually, I think that is a fairly unusual situation, and one that is
> confusing to people when it happens, because they suddenly have to
> choose between 2 sets of changes to save, and have to deal with losing
> one set of changes, with no way to make the decision.
> 
I was not talking about 2 sets of changes, just 2 views of the same
file. Modifications go to both, but you can have one view on line 100
and the other on line 10000. Just like emacs does.

cheers