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Bug 104827 - Window split support
Summary: Window split support
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: editor
Classification: Unclassified
Component: -- Other -- (show other bugs)
Version: 7.4
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Milutin Kristofic
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Reported: 2007-05-25 11:38 UTC by gnufied
Modified: 2016-07-07 07:30 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description gnufied 2007-05-25 11:38:14 UTC 
Splitting of code editor window is next to useless in netbeans. I mean, I am
aware of the fact that, I can do this with mouse and dragging tabs. But anyone
who has used Emacs, will say yuck.

There should be keyboard shortcuts to split/unsplit windows and status and code
editor toolbars should be shared between windows, so even after splitting
windows, user doesn't loose space for viewing his code.
Comment 1 novakm 2007-05-29 08:30:36 UTC 
This is rather an enhancement. Reassigning to editor for evaluation.
Comment 2 Miloslav Metelka 2007-05-30 12:41:03 UTC 
I guess that the status bar should also be shared, right?
This will possibly require some changes in the openide/editor as well since I
guess that there will be just a single CloneableEditor (a TopComponent) and its
pane will be switched depending which of the two editor panes (from the
splitting) will be used.
Comment 3 gnufied 2007-05-30 13:10:23 UTC 
@mmetelka 

Yes, status bar should be shared, and pressing Control-TAB shouldn't switch
between windows, as it does currently. It should switch between buffers opened
in current Window.
Comment 4 ender01 2013-08-23 12:05:39 UTC 
Updating this ticket as I think having keyboard support for window control would be a great feature to have. 

I don't know if following emacs conventions is needed as I don't have a problem with how split windows behave, but being able to control them with the keyboard would be great. (moving, splitting, joining, etc)
Comment 5 apjanke 2014-03-17 04:25:48 UTC 
I would like to see this improved, too. Keyboard control is not a big deal for me personally, but I would really like to see shared status bars and editor toolbars, in both orientations. Especially for a vertical split, it would conserve a few lines of screen real estate, which is scarce on smaller displays like laptops.
Comment 6 Martin Balin 2016-07-07 07:30:14 UTC 
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue.

Thanks for your cooperation,
NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss