[TxMt] Editor problems with file opened in two windows

[Charilaos Skiadas]

On Mar 28, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Ed Wong wrote:

> I've encounter a couple of problems when I work with a file that's  
> opened in
> two separate windows.
>
> First if I select and copy text in one window and past it into the  
> second
> window, when I return to the first window the selection doesn't  
> disappear
> when I click somewhere else on the page. I need to cursor over the  
> selection
> to force a redraw to remove the selection appearance.

I can sort of confirm this, in the case where both windows are not  
part of the project. If one window is part of the project then I  
didn't see this problem. Further, it did disappear when I clicked a  
SECOND time.

> Second when I perform any sort of editing on one window and Command 
> +` to the
> second window (and before using the mouse to click on the second  
> window's
> edit area) the insertion point is moved to the top of the page so  
> that any
> subsequent keyboard activity results in the page redrawing at the  
> top of
> page. I then have to relocate the line that I was originally at.

I can confirm this in both cases. It is admittedly a bit irritating.  
I guess the point is that this is the behavior TM has in general when  
a window gains focus and the underlying document has been altered in  
some other way, since the current position marker may very well not  
be valid any more, and it certainly may not correspond to the context  
that it used to. I usually see it when the file has been altered by  
svn or some such, I hadn't thought of this case.

> This makes any sort of editing between two views of the same file  
> using a
> keyboard a pretty frustration experience.

True, I think the purpose of allowing the second window to exist in  
the first place though (at this point) is so that you can look at the  
one window and edit in the other, or to look at a file in a project  
while editing another file. If both files are edited, then what  
should be happening to the caret is in my opinion a bit unclear.

> I'm not going to mention a request for a split window as I think  
> that one's
> been requested enough in the past. ;-)

It is very high indeed in the list of user requests, ASAIK ;)

I think a lot of these things will be considerably different for 2.0,  
so I would wait to see what that holds, and wouldn't expect such  
changes to happen before 2.0.

> Thanks,
> Ed

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College