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adobe / brackets

An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
http://brackets.io
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2 requests - Freeze LivePreview to one view / Add row or column views as needed #9525

Open heatwaveo8 opened 10 years ago

heatwaveo8 commented 10 years ago

Request 1 - Freeze LivePreview to one view

As a PHP or SHTML/SSI programmer, modularity is important to me. However, when in LivePreview mode, I am unable to see my changes as they apply to the whole page, when working on a header or footer file.

Now that split view has been added, the only step needed to accomplish this is to be able to freeze LivePreview on the view containing the file that is calling the header and footer files. The ability, in general, to freeze and unfreeze the currently active view at will, and have LivePreview update when any file is saved, would be appreciated. This is already possible with CSS, but not with other PHP or HTML/SHTML files.

Request 2 - Add row or column views as needed

As a user working on modulated code, I would like to be able to split a document into 2 columns and have each potentially contain multiple rows. In the prior example, the left would have one row for the main file, and the right would have multiple rows, one for the header file, one for the footer file, etc... basically the files the other one is calling.

JeffryBooher commented 10 years ago

@heatwaveo8 you may want to upvote the story for splitting the same document https://trello.com/c/GezHZcCx -- it sounds like you'd like to see this feature added to Brackets.

heatwaveo8 commented 10 years ago

It's true that this would be nice to have, so I can do that for sure. My second request is more about having additional flexibility with how many columns and rows we can work with on separate files.

  1. A column has 1 row in it, for index.php
  2. The other column has 3 rows in it, for head.php, header.php, and footer.php

My first request would assume this use case as well, with flexibility on which column has which files. I'd also envision something where we could also add additional columns, one for css/scss files and one for js files, etc.