Hello I'm new here and I would like to know of a split pane text editor that continues from where the the other pane left off.

I got this idea from a Coffee Shop where a Developer used a Bluetooth Keyboard and flipped his Macbook Air sideways and I asked why and he says "I can see what I'm doing more and get more lines of code on screen" he also said he also has a Thinkpad T60p and he said that was the best laptop you can get with 1,200 Vertical pixels (It's a high end 4:3 Laptop, so it's 1600x1200) without spending thousands of dollars for a 1920x1200 16:10 laptop.

Here's a diagram of what I mean with most laptops being at 1366x768:

So, is there a Text Editor that offers what I'm looking for?

Edit: I hate not having spell check in paint

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After a bit of googleing with terms that's hard to make friendly to search engines, (this is one of these things that's hard to describe to a search engine, so it takes hours to find) I found out how to do it in Notepad++.

Go to View>Move/ Clone Current Document>Clone to other view

Then on the right pane, go where the left pane leaves off from

Then go to View>Synchronize Vertical Scrolling

Screenshot from my Desktop:

You can layout any windowed program like that in Win 7. Hold the windows key and press the arrow keys, and you can align your windows to the edge of the screen. Left and right will snap them to either edge. Up and down will do different things depending on context. Very useful. Especially for browsing multiple websites.

Actually you could do that in winxp as well i think - ctrl+clicking on multiple windows in the taskbar let you select multiple ones and could then right click and select Tile Horizontally / Vertically (it's some combination like that, not 100% sure). It's one of those features that I don't think Windows ever advertised as much as it should have.

What a coincidence. I'm on a Thinkpad T60p right now (1400x1050).

Many text editors allow you to use multiple views to do this, as stated above. I use Kate, which has multiple views that can divide the screen somewhat arbitrarily and view any (including the same) file in each.

However, I like having the width of the screen, as well; code rarely stays within the 80 columns that are recommended, as far as I've seen. I'm not sure what editor puts the text in the center like that, but I use a comfortably smaller font size and a single view, with fast scrolling. As much as I like to see as much code as possible, I find that in practice, it often goes to waste.

Think of it this way: if you had a screen that was as large as your wall, you'd see a ton of code at once, but how much can you physically see and interact with at the same time? At a certain point that is different for each person, there is no more benefit in displaying more lines; if my screen was twice as high, and I had to look down to see the extra lines, I could just as easy scroll down a page and not move my eyes too far. Additionally, there's a decent chance that the code on the other view is not needed, and thus is taking up half of the screen with irrelevant text.

Don't let me discourage you, however; I'm just saying that for me, a smaller font size and an efficient touchpad setup outweigh the benefits of bisecting my screen width-wise, so if you are simply looking to see more code, this may be another option.