79 lines
4.4 KiB
HTML
79 lines
4.4 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Multi View</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css"></head>
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<body>
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<h1>Multi
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View</h1>
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<p>
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<img style="width: 839px; height: 550px;" alt="" src="Images/Screenshots/multiview.png">
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<p>You
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can enable a secondary edit window in Notepad++ to be able to view
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two documents at the same time (possibly the same). If used with the
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same document, you can quickly compare two documents or make quick
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changes in two places at the same time without having to scroll or
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keep bookmarks.<p>
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To
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use Multi View, first activate the document that you want to view in
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the other view. Then, you have two options:<br>Select <span class="menu_item">View->Move/Clone current document->Go to
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another view</span>, this will move the document to the other view, closing
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it in the first view.<p>
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Select
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<span class="menu_item">View->Move/Clone current document->Clone to another view</span>, this will clone the document into the
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other view, linking the two. Any change in the first document will
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automatically be forwarded to the second and vice versa. You can also
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reach these command by right-clicking on the tab of a document and
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selecting the command from the context menu.</font><br>Note that these options are also available by dragging a tab into an edit field, with the <span class="shortcut">Ctrl</span> depressed for cloning and not depressed for moving
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<p>Once
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you have Multi View enabled, you can control its layout. You can <span class="shortcut">drag</span>
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the divider around using your mouse, or <span class="shortcut">click</span> on the small arrows on
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the top and bottom to completely move it to the left or right.
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<span class="shortcut">Rightclicking</span> on the divider shows a popup menu allowing you to
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rotate the layout for a horizontal or vertical version.
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<p>Although
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you can view two documents at the same time, only one can be active
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(have the focus). You can determine the active view by the tabbar if
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you have the topline enabled (see <a href="Preferences.html#Global">Tab bar</a>). By default,
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the active view has a darker color of orange than the inactive view.
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Also, only the active view can have the caret. You can switch the
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active view by selecting <span class="menu_item">View->Focus on other view</span>. The active
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view determines what options are available from the menu or toolbar.
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If the main view has all documents saved, but the secondary view has
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modified tabs, you can only select the Save option if the
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secondary view is active.
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<p>If
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you have the same document open in two views, they will share some
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properties, but some of them can be modified independently. These
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include:
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<p><ul><li>Folding (but not line hiding).
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</li><li>Zoom level;
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</li><li>Scroll position;
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</li><li>Cursor position;
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</li><li>RTL modus (see RTL).
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</li></ul>
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<p>Additionally,
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each view can have its own properties which can be set in
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<a href="Preferences.html#Editing">the Preferences -> Settings -> Editing tab</a>, use the dropdown list to choose between
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the views. Each view can also independently show unprintable
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characters, determine the linewrapping modus and control the overtype
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option.<p>
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If
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you open a new document or a file, it will do so in the currently
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active view. Additionally, closing the last document of a view will
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close that view if two views are visible (including moving the last
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document of one view to the other).<p>
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To
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ease document comparison/navigation, you can enable scroll locking in
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Multi View. When a lock is enabled, scrolling one view will
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automatically scroll the other. The lock will attempt to keep the
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current offset. This means if one view is scrolled 5 lines lower than
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the other, the vertical scroll lock will keep this distance unless
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this is not possible anymore. Is soon as it is possible it will
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retain the offset again.
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<p>To
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enable horizontal scroll locking, select <span class="menu_item">View->Synchronize
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Horizontal Scrolling</span> or press the <img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" alt="" src="Images/Toolbar/syncH.png"> button.<p>
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To
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enable vertical scroll locking, select <span class="menu_item">View->Synchronize Vertical
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Scrolling</span> or press the <img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" alt="" src="Images/Toolbar/syncV.png"> button.
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</body></html> |