Re: TextWrangler 4.0.1 - Editing a file opens two windows

[Michael Bierman]

Try File > Preferences > Application >  Open documents into the front window when possible 

I think that will do it.

Michael Bierman
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Roger Moffat <roge...@gmail.com> wrote:

I "think" this started when I upgraded my MacPro to Mac OS X Lion, but aren't entirely sure…

If I open a file to compare the contents to another file with "Compare 2 front documents", I find that I have 2 instances of each file open in separate windows.

What is causing this, and can it be stopped?

Thanks!!

Roger

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[Rich Siegel]

On Sunday, October 14, 2012, Roger Moffat <roge...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Do "Compare Front Two Documents" on them, and I now have a total of 5
>windows open - the compare file results window, plus two instances of
>each of the original 2 files - the Compare Two Front Documents action
>opens up new instances of each of the windows.

This is the intended operation of the software; when you do a
Compare, an additional window on the document will open, so that
you can do the comparison without disturbing your original
windows. When you close the Differences results windows, the
extras will go away. (Note that they are *not* copies of the
document; but simply additional views on the *same* document; so
that edits will be reflected in all of the windows.) In essence,
this is the same as doing "Open in Additional Window" on the
View menu.

>It didn't used to do this, but I'm thinking it's got to be something
>to do with Lion's Autosaving/Versioning feature?.

Nope. :-)

R.
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[Roger Moffat]

On Oct 15, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Rich Siegel wrote:

> This is the intended operation of the software; when you do a Compare, an additional window on the document will open, so that you can do the comparison without disturbing your original windows. When you close the Differences results windows, the extras will go away. (Note that they are *not* copies of the document; but simply additional views on the *same* document; so that edits will be reflected in all of the windows.) In essence, this is the same as doing "Open in Additional Window" on the View menu.

Thank you Rich for this explanation. I can see now what has been happening - I often close one or other of the compared windows, but not always the Differences window, so that's how I was ending up seeing that there were multiples - I'd close one and then find another, but not always. The explanation that closing the Differences window would tidy this all up helps a lot!!

Thanks

Roger