Move/clone to new instance/other pane

[jmcneill13]

Hi,

This feature would allow you to right-click on a tab and an option would come up to move or duplicate it to another instance or another pane. This is a feature similar to that offered in Notepad++, netbeans, and visual studio. They are all implemented a little differently but with the same results. You can right-click or drag-n-drop the tabs. This is very handy to easily edit a document in 2 places at the same time or reference another file while editing another.

I understand that UE has a feature to duplicate a current tab, however there is no way to have it duplicate and move to another pane or instance. The problem is that if you have a bunch of files open simultaneously, you don't want to use the tile commands because it will tile all 10 or 15 files, making it unusable.

Regards,
James

[Mofi]

Why waiting for such a feature and not using already implemented features.

You can click on Advanced - Open New Instance of UltraEdit to open a new instance. Then either Drag And Drop a file tab from first to second instance or right click on the file tab and use Transfer To to close the file in first instance and open it in the second instance, i.e. move the file to the other instance. If the file to move is modified, UltraEdit automatically saves it first, before moving it to the other instance.

Another method is to create a user tool with command line:

"Full path of UE program files directory\uedit32.exe" /fni /r "%f"

On execution of this user tool a new instance of UltraEdit is created with opening current file in read-only mode because of /r parameter.

[rhapdog]

If you'd like to edit 2 different sections of the same file at the same time, then perhaps a vertical or horizontal split pane is what you're looking for. I thought for sure Mofi would have included that in his answer. See the power tip, Drag-N-Drop Split Pane Editing, which should give you additional ways to accomplish what you're looking for without having to even use a second instance.

Mofi, I didn't even know you could do what you said. I always use an additional split pane, but I can see where that would come in handy as well.

Looks like there is always multiple ways to accomplish things in UE, which is why it always tops every other editor I try.

Well, James, you can move it to another pane, or to another instance, which are the 2 things you were looking for. Tiling is not necessary.

[jmcneill13]

Hi

Thank you very much. That's great. I just needed to setup the configuration to be able to drag-n-drop tabs. This was a really important feature. Thanks.