I am using IntelliJ for Grails coding, and it has a split window feature (vertical and horizontal). I am looking for an IDE or plugin for IDE that can split window/screen, and if it’s the same file, have the option of having the second window/screen be an automatic continuation of the first screen.
The idea being, when you scroll the first screen, the second will automatically follow. Basically, I want to be able to read more code on a widescreen monitor.
Can anyone point me in the direction of an IntelliJ setting I might be missing or plugin, or point me to an IDE that can support such a feature?
Someone has written a set of patches for NetBeans to do what you want. Note the date, however. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/2005/09/followmode_for.html
Otherwise, the closest you will get with an IDE is emacs with follow-mode or vim with :vsplit and using :scrollbind in both windows.
This is an incredibly useful feature, but it’s painful to do without IDEA’s features when using emacs. I usually end up splitting vertically and scrolling by hand in IDEA. It’s one plug-in I would definitely consider paying for.