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It would be very helpfull if I could open a file, split it vertically and then look at lines 1-100 on the left and 2000-2100 on the right. Currently, both panes scoll at the same time which make a vertical split absolutely useless.

Wayne

You are absolutly right.

I consider this a Bug - in horizontal split you can scroll indepently.

I Think, I can remember a Version, where it worked!


Robert

No, you can't scroll independently in horizontal split.

In vertical split, vertical scrolling is synchronized.
In horizontal split, horizontal scrolling is synchronized.

And no, it is not a bug. It is a very useful feature the way it is right now.

Enllight me: Why is it usefull to see the same part of the text two times on my screen, absolutly synchronized?

IMHO It would be usefull, if I could choose two different parts of the text and then enable synchronized scrolling, so that if i scroll down the upper part of the text in the left window down 3 lines, thow lower part in the right window will scroll 3 lines, too

Robert

It is not the same part of the text.
e.g. for horizontal split:
in pane 1 I see lines 1 to 20 and in pane 2 I see lines 234 to 250.

I write assembly language for the 8051. All my code fits into the first 40 columns. When comparing or reading about two functions at the same time, it is very handy to hav a vertical split, not a horizontal. The horizontal shows me 200 columns of test (and I'm only using 40). That is a lot of wasted screen space. Due to the nature of assy, there are many rows needed to accomplish even small tasks and the code isn't very wide.

What I have to do now, is copy the file and run two windows of the same code with different file names so that I can examine the same file in different locations

MudGuard: Thats what jeronimo479 and I'm talking about.

In Textpad 4.7.1 You always see the same part of the text.
This is the Bug.

A Enhancement would be if I could turn sync-scrolling on and off...

rmarz: for you, different sets of lines are the same part of the text?

Example screenshot, one file with vertical and horizontal split.
I see four different parts of the file...

I want the verticle spilt to be able to look at different rows (not column of text). You showed four panes, and note that the verticle panes all looked at the same rows.

I want the left pane to look at the first line of code, and the right pane to look at the last in a text file with 63,000 lines of code.

In Mudguard's example,

The scroll settings of the upper left panel is independent of the settings for the lower right.

I agree that it is a lot of wasted real-estate... but a possible work around..

The other option would be to open two sessions of Textpad for the same file...

just my 2cents...

I am also having problem doing vertical scrolling on the same document.

What I found is that this issue is mouse dependent. When I use the laptop's built-in mouse (IBM Thinkpad's Trackpoint), I can vertically scroll each pane of the same file independently. However, when I use my external mouse (MS TrackBall Explorer), the scrolling of the two panes become synchronized.

Does anyone know a workaround for this? Do we know which external mouse work and which ones don't?

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