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Matt,

I am not sure if this is helpful, but, if you right click a window's tab you can "Move To Other Tab Group" which will create a top and bottom split so you can see both files you are editing at the same time. You can also Split View to see the same file in 2 different panes. I have not figured out how to make these views/splits go "vertical" though...

hth,

Dave...

1) Unfortunately you can't have two instances of Komodo running at once. I agree it's an annoying limitation. Dave's suggestion of using the secondary tab group is the best workaround currently.

2) Dave, two make the split switch from horizontal to vertical you can either double-click on the splitter between the two groups or select Window/Rotate Tab Groups.

Hope that helps!

--david

David,

Just the thing I was looking for...

Thanks again,

Dave...

Is it possible to split the window more than once? For instance I would like to have three vertical tab groups on my wide-screen. I might might then want to split one of the vertical groups horizontally.

That would be a good feature request, though!

--david

> davida | Wed, 2006-11-01 15:44
>
> 1) Unfortunately you can't have two instances of Komodo running at once.
> I agree it's an annoying limitation.

Is this a mozilla thing? I know it has (kludgy) ways of running the same program under different "profiles", as they call them.

If I persue trying to do something similar with komodo is there a possibility of success?

I just ordered a Dell Ubuntu laptop and I am really looking forward to using workspaces.

Regards,

trwww

You can do this, similar to the way you can setup and run separate firefox profiles.

How? By using the KOMODO_USERDATADIR environment variable. If you set a different value to this variable for every subsequent komodo session you want to run, then you'll have multiple komodo sessions running. Example of my setup to run two different Komodo sessions on Linux:

# export KOMODO_USERDATADIR=/home/toddw/.komodoide_session1
# komodo
# export KOMODO_USERDATADIR=/home/toddw/.komodoide_session2
# komodo

Now, the problem with this is that there is no shared information between the two sessions. Your toolbox changes, session state, preferences, code intelligence, etc... will only ever be seen by the same/one Komodo instance, similar to how the Firefox bookmarks, session and preferences are separated between Firefox profiles.

Cheers,
Todd