Gareth Conner

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10 years, 11 months ago.

Editing and viewing multiple files

I'm pretty new to mbed, and really enjoy working with both the hardware and the software libraries.

I find the IDE to be pretty decent, if basic. Something I keep bumping into is the inability to view multiple files at a time. It would be great to have a split view to view two files side by side (eg. header file & cpp, or base class and subclass). I can open multiple windows in Chrome, but the IDE doesn't sync between windows. One window goes stale and doesn't show the edits in the other window.

Or... it would be marvelous to have an easy way to edit files in a local editor (Sublime, vim, Notepad++, etc.).

Anything I'm missing that's already in the IDE that makes viewing two files at once possible?

I think this is a good question. I second your request. I often work with multiple compiler tabs open, but files are not sync'ed.

posted by David G 09 Feb 2014

1 Answer

Simon Ford
10 years, 11 months ago.

Hi Gareth,

You aren't missing anything - it supports internal tabs so you can move between files, but not viewing two files together.

It is a sensible request, and something tells me that going along the native browser tab as window would be the much more interesting route longterm (and worrying about various live syncing etc).

However, a 2 way horizontal or vertical split "split screen" (rather than overly flexible internal windowing system) could also work - allowing to have two of the tabs open at the same time, any may well be an easier first step if it was useful.

Simon

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Thanks for the response Simon. It's certainly a great tool and the mbed libraries make it very easy to get started.

posted by Gareth Conner 09 Feb 2014

Hi Simon, is there any update on this? I am running into the same issue wanting to edit header and cpp files side by side.

posted by Aaron Moore 18 Mar 2016

Also mentioning my interest in this topic. Especially since the doxygen files included in libraries also open up in these tabs.

posted by Julian H 07 May 2016