Two files in the same window

[Jan Erik Moström]

Is it possible to display two files side by side in a window? If so, I
can't figure out how (except for using "Find differences"), help?

Use case: I've always just opened two windows side by side when I needed
this, but when I use Zoom I prefer to share a window and not my desktop.

= jem

[Holger Bartel]

Hi,

You can only drag down the little white bar above the scrollbar to show another part of the doc underneath each other, but not next to each other.

Best,
holger

> On 27 May 2021, at 4:47 PM, Jan Erik Moström <li...@mostrom.pp.se> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to display two files side by side in a window? If so, I can't figure out how (except for using "Find differences"), help?

>
> Use case: I've always just opened two windows side by side when I needed this, but when I use Zoom I prefer to share a window and not my desktop.
>
> = jem
>

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[Jan Erik Moström]

On 27 May 2021, at 11:27, 'Holger Bartel' via BBEdit Talk wrote:

> You can only drag down the little white bar above the scrollbar to
> show another part of the doc underneath each other, but not next to
> each other.

Yes, but I want to view two *different* files.

= jem

[Holger Bartel]

Don’t think that’s possible, but sure would be nice ;)

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[Ron Catterall]

Heresy I know: BUT Supreme Text will do 2, 3 ...side by side same or
different files

[Nestor Aguilera]

Hi Jan,

If you don't mind having the files in separate windows, you could use the Arrange submenu inside the Window menu, with which you may tile or cascade windows in different forms.

Best,

Nestor

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[Sam Hathaway]

Not sure if this will satisfy you, but you could open two windows, use
Window > Tile Window to Left Side of Screen and Window > Tile Window to
Right Side of Screen, and then share your entire screen (which will, at
this point, will be completely consumed by your two files).

Cheers,
-sam

[Charlie Garrison]

Good morning,

On 27 May 2021, at 21:59, Jan Erik Moström wrote:

Yes, but I want to view two *different* files.

And regarding the reason for that requirement, you can create a virtual camera which records just a portion of your screen (with the two windows) and use that virtual camera to feed into the screen share (rather than sharing screen directly). I don't really know anything about the solutions for that; just that I saw a gaming friend showing us his setup to do that for streaming.

I suspect a virtual camera is way overkill for what you need, but just throwing an idea from outside the box.

My solution for that... I have multiple displays, so I "clean up" one display and put all my BBEdit windows on that display, and share that display. The multi-doc single-window wouldn't solve my screen sharing anyway since I will often need iTerm in the mix.

Lastly, have you looked at Tuple? I haven't used it but I'm pretty sure they have a 'share screen selection' feature. But it's for pair programming and not sharing screen to a group.

• https://tuple.app

Anyway, I'm curious about your use-case and how you find to solve it - you are not the only one screen sharing BBEdit docs. ;-)

My main problem with screen sharing BBEdit windows is pixel/font size. Or maybe it's my large/retina screen being shared to non-retina laptop screens - I have to change BBEdit windows to at least 18pt font so text is big enough for others. And of course change the size back afterwards.

-cng

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[Christopher Stone]

On 05/27/2021, at 11:16, Ron Catterall <roncat...@gmail.com> wrote:

Heresy I know: BUT Supreme Text will do 2, 3 ...side by side same or different files

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Hey Ron,

Did you mean Sublime Text?

Hey Jan - this feature has been requested before and not gotten any traction at all so far as I know.

If you really want it you should make a good case and send it to support.

Bare Bones Software <sup...@barebones.com>

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Take Care,

Chris

[Jan Erik Moström]

Thanks to all of you for confirming my own findings.

In this case I solved it by using "Find differences", not ideal but ...

The reason why I want to avoid sharing the whole screen is simply that
while talking over Zoom, I use several application at the same time, - I
also take notes in BBEdit and/or Devonthink, have background information
available (web pages, bbedit, omnioutliner, etc) as well as the usual
background noice of notifications popping up. Not to mentions that
during lectures I'm also using the chat functionality in Zoom (students
VERY much prefer sending questions via chat instead of just asking).

This is why I really dislike powerpoint (difficult/impossible to do this
as far as I know) and very much prefer Keynote and Deckset.

But, my need for displaying two text files side by side isn't something
that happen often so I'll manage via some "hack" when I need it.

= jem

[Rainer Krug]

By pressing shift can actually share two windows - and on the Advanced Tab, I can share a screen region (Zoom Version: 5.6.4 (765))

Cheers,

Rainer

[Jan Erik Moström]

On 28 May 2021, at 8:51, Rainer Krug wrote:

> By pressing shift can actually share two windows - and on the Advanced
> Tab, I can share a screen region (Zoom Version: 5.6.4 (765))

Look at that, I didn't know that. Thanks !!

= jem