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> I’m not overly excited about this feature myself

i don't understand this. how does he code only looking at one file at a time?



How do you code looking at two files at one time? What's the point?

I've been programming for nearly thirty years now. For the bulk of that time, I had an editor which allowed me to do split screens, and I used it maybe once a year. I switched to TextMate in 2008, and have never once missed having a split screen.


different strokes for different folks. i look at one buffer at a time, and switch between them. have only rarely made use of split views. helps me mentally with encapsulation/separation.


Maybe...drumroll... multiple windows?


don't you have to open a new project or something contrived to do that? i don't remember; it's been a while since i've used textmate.


There's no projects in TM, if you open a folder it opens up the folder in the project drawer. From there (or from Finder) you can open up as many editing windows as you want.




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