[ jEdit-users ] Using jEdit on a widescreen

[Mordechai Ben-A. <Mot...@we...>]

I am about to buy a new laptop and they all have "wide" screens. Since I use a relatively large font, the shortened height of these screens means that I will see fewer lines in a text area and this is serious for editing latex documents or computer programs.

Does anyone have any suggestions of how to utilize the extra width of the screen to make up for the lower height?

I see that I can open new views or split views into panes, but I can't see much difference between them in terms of the editing experience. What considerations should guide the choice of one over the other?

But ... I don't usually work on two files simultaneously or two portions of a file, so what I would really like is for a continuous portion of text to be shown in two side-by-side textareas, while the movement of the caret or the scolling is synchronized. Is that possible?

Thanks

Moti