Can I have two documents open same time, side by side?

[Richard Pitcairn]

I would like to visually compare two documents but can't see how to have both open side by side. I have searched user manual and on line and not finding an answer. Is it possible?

Thanks,

— Richard 

[Nestor Aguilera]

Hi Richard:

You could arrange the two front windows with "Window -> Arrange -> Tile Front Two Windows Across", scroll them until the same lines are adjacent, and then use "Window -> Syncrho scrolling".

Hope this helps.

Nestor

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[Steve deRosier]

Obviously the tile command that Nestor suggested will do it, but one
of my favorite utilities for handling this is Moom. In particular
because I might want to "tile" windows from multiple apps.
https://manytricks.com/moom/

- Steve

[Richard Pitcairn]

Nestor,

I can't see how to do that. I do have about 8 documents open right now. How do I select just two as the "top ones"?

[Bruce Van Allen]

On 4/29/19 at 4:18 PM, doctorp...@gmail.com (Richard

Pitcairn) wrote:

>Nestor,
>I can't see how to do that. I do have about 8 documents open
>right now. How do I select just two as the "top ones"?

Click on one, then switch to the second. Those two will then be top-most.

BTW, I use Moom, and a way that I like for viewing two windows -
on a large enough screen - is to hover the mouse cursor over the
green zoom button upper left *not clicking*; after a second a
popup lets me choose to have the window fill the left or right
half of the screen; then I can do the same with the other
window, filling the other half. Moom has many other capabilities
(I have no connection to the product or company).

HTH

>On Monday, April 29, 2019 at 3:59:58 PM UTC-7, Richard Pitcairn wrote:
>>
>>I would like to visually compare two documents but can't see
>>how to have both open side by side. I have searched user
>>manual and on line and not finding an answer. Is it possible?
>>Thanks,
>>— Richard
>

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- Bruce

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[Jean-Christophe Helary]

There is a free utility call Spectacle that helps you reorganize your windows, regardless of the application.

Put a window front, move it left, put another window front, move it right. And you're done.

You could also use AppleScript to do the same thing (@Christopher Stone wink wink :)

Jean-Christophe Helary
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http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune

[drpitcairn]

Bruce,

Thanks for the further advice. Something not working the same at my end. I tried repeatedly what you suggest, to click one then switch to second, then go to tile two front windows across. Absolutely nothing happens. 

I tried Moom and no difference. All it does is make the window smaller and put it towards the lower left of the screen. I used the “Arrange windows - BBEdit"

— Richard 

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[David Rostenne]

Right click on the title of the file, in the list of open files (on my machine the list is on the far left..) and then choose “move to new window”.

Once you have both open on their own then you can arrange them, manually or with the Tile/Arrange options.

Cheers,

Dave

[Sam Hathaway]

On 29 Apr 2019, at 17:18, Richard Pitcairn wrote:

> I would like to visually compare two documents but can't see how to
> have
> both open side by side.

Certainly Search > Compare Two Front Windows would work? It places two
documents side-by-side and synchronizes their scrolling. Presumably you
can ignore the differences list at the bottom if you are only interested
in comparing “visually”.

Hope this helps.
-sam

[Liheng Wang]

How do that in Mac

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[Liheng Wang]

I hope it looks like this: