Ideally I'd like to be able to have multiple editors open to the same session. Shared buffers (files), shared registers, but ability to have different views of the session too, in different shapes.
Maybe I want a main editor view in one virtual desktop, but a different editor on the same session on the side of a screen showing off a bunch of documentation, to compare against.
Or I'd like to be away from home & open a web editor, without changing the editor at home. Or maybe I want to let a friend attach their editor & have a shared session we can pair across.
I think it's a mistake to bucket neovim as a terminal program. That is one modality you can use to access a headless program. But it's far from the only one. And the whole point of having a client server architecture, to me, screams not only about the decoupling, but also implies a >1 client capability. Neovim allows this, it's just not very good, since everyone's client has to share a row x column configuration.
As an Intellij user, i do not see the need for this. Nor can tell whether it is available in IntelliJ or not. Can anyone detail the common usages for this?
The original issue on GitHub ask for that the toolpanes (terminal, Debug console, etc) can be opened in a floating window. What the upcoming vs code feature has implemented is that the code editor for a file can be opened in a new window.
The announced feature doesn't actually address the original issue raised and is much less useful than the features the OP ask for.
Personally it is rare that I need to display two documents in two seperate windows, but to have some of the tools in seperate windows. That I use all in the time in visual studio proper.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 30.9 ms ] threadOfficial release announcement - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_84#_floating-editor...
Floating windows feature is available in the VS Code Insiders channel - https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders/
Currently it's painful to manage, even with Origami
There was some notions about called SmartUI, back in 2015, that we're looking at decoupling this. But never materialized. https://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/
Maybe I want a main editor view in one virtual desktop, but a different editor on the same session on the side of a screen showing off a bunch of documentation, to compare against.
Or I'd like to be away from home & open a web editor, without changing the editor at home. Or maybe I want to let a friend attach their editor & have a shared session we can pair across.
I think it's a mistake to bucket neovim as a terminal program. That is one modality you can use to access a headless program. But it's far from the only one. And the whole point of having a client server architecture, to me, screams not only about the decoupling, but also implies a >1 client capability. Neovim allows this, it's just not very good, since everyone's client has to share a row x column configuration.
The announced feature doesn't actually address the original issue raised and is much less useful than the features the OP ask for.
Personally it is rare that I need to display two documents in two seperate windows, but to have some of the tools in seperate windows. That I use all in the time in visual studio proper.