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Would be great if you could open the same file in more than one window (and tile these windows). Sometimes you need to compare/edit different parts of the same file at the same time. Especially viewing different methods of the same class in different windows. Maybe opening through context menu "open in new window" when clicking on a method in the tree. This is especially interesting in combination with the mode "Show source of selected item only".
Would you be interesting in implementing this feature and working though the usability issues? There is partial support for this already - It is possible to open multiple windows and have the same file opened. It is up to the editor implementation to decide if there is a single shared model underneath. - The multi-page editor support has been extened to support tiling editors We will not be able to consider this request until after 2.0
Just putting in my 2 cents - there are several people in my organization who have been hoping this fearue will show up.
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This is a feature I'd love to see also. It was the kind of feature I used quite a lot in VisualAge for Java (VAJ)and miss in WSAD/Eclipse. With VAJ, you could have completely separate browsers for different packages, classes and methods, all open at once. In addition, each browser could be cloned to give a fresh view on a single element, and saved changes would be reflected in other browsers. Eclipse JDT does allow another workbench window to be opened but it is a rather tedious process to work your way to the class or method in question, especially if it is just for a short time or if you want many independent views.
This is related to <a href="http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8009" >bug 8009</a>, Split File Editor. The functionality would be more or less the same even if the details of how one did it might be different.
This one is already fixed isn't it? With the "New editor" functionality I can open the same or different types of editors on the same file and it works fine, at least in 3.2M3.
Moving Dougs bugs
This has been implemented.
