The Meaning of Multi-Doc
posted by Thomas Bell in Features 
April 26th, 2007
Over the course of Intype’s development the most requested feature has to
be Multi-Doc support. As far as I know this has been on the top of the to-do list
for a while. The good news is that Martin is progressing towards it with success.
So what will Multi-Doc be like in Intype? I’ve had quite a few discussions with Martin on this topic. Here it is: What Multi-Doc means to Martin.
Martin’s Multi-Doc Key Features:
- Tabs Support
- Split-screen Support
- Project Management
And of course Intype would not be Intype if it didn’t have some very unique Multi-Doc features. Martin told me that the UI will include some very promising and original features.
Multi-Doc has become the norm for many applications: Firefox, IDEs, and tons of text editors. You don’t have to worry Intype won’t be left behind. But if you think that we are missing something let us know on the forums.
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1. Rasmus
26.04.2007 at 9:01 pm
That sounds really great, Im’ really missing the tab support!
- But please, pleeeaase include a search function. If so, you guys will make me a happy man.
2. Thomas Bell
26.04.2007 at 9:03 pm
Search is planned. It is currently slated for the unstable.0.3.0 release.
3. Pelle
26.04.2007 at 9:52 pm
It would be great if you looked at jEdit when building your split-screen function.
jEdit enables me to split the view both horizontally and vertically and split every part over and over again until I really can’t see any text within all the parts.
That function enables me to really use all of my screen and eliminate unnecessary white-space.
4. yarden
26.04.2007 at 10:18 pm
sounds good! Thomas Bell, what about release date for 0.3?
5. filer
26.04.2007 at 11:25 pm
I really like how Zend have solved split screen feature in the Zend Studio. They call it “clone view”. It allows you to undock splitted part of the document and move it wherever you want. You can split document more than once so you can have more boxes positioned around/upon the main document area.
6. Shak
27.04.2007 at 5:43 am
Ah, you don’t know how happy I am to hear ’split screen.’ Tabs are fine, but you’re going to be wasting screen real estate if you are only showing one window at a time. Glad this will fix that!
7. Cyberdeeder
27.04.2007 at 11:05 am
So glad to read news about Intype. Keep up the good work guys !
8. Branstrom
30.04.2007 at 2:19 pm
I thought splitview support wouldn’t be in Intype until a year from now or something. Last I spoke to Martin about it it sounded kinda like it wasn’t a big priority at all. When is it slated for inclusion?
9. Martin Cohen
02.05.2007 at 9:01 am
Branstrom: The multi-doc is built to support the split view feature, however it may not be fully functional in unstable.0.3.0, but we will be very close. The most hard part is to develop neat and effective UI.
yarden: Currently I’m developing all by myself, because Juraj is currently finishing his last tasks at his full-time job to get to Intype development as soon as possible. My work time has been also changed, so I will have more time to work on it. But still, I’m not able to make an estimation. As long as I will be able to estimate the release time, we’ll post about it.
10. Branstrom
02.05.2007 at 11:32 pm
Okay, it all sounds really good. Didn’t think splitview was going to be introduced in Intype for a very long time.
I think you mean “as soon”, not “as long”, btw :)
11. Kresimir
04.05.2007 at 5:31 pm
How about a full screen feature ? It would be cool to for example press F11 and get intype without menu, taskbar etc. over full screen. What do you think ?
12. Erm
04.05.2007 at 5:35 pm
I am kind of excited about the advent of project management and multi-file tabbed editing.
13. Branstrom
06.05.2007 at 5:07 pm
A fullscreen feature would be nice, when the devs find the time for such a thing - although hiding the taskbar and the menu and stuff should all be optional.
14. thiago
07.05.2007 at 8:20 pm
a fullscreen feature is very good. But i think too in a dock the panels, dock project view panel and others if exists.
15. Alexandru Savu
07.05.2007 at 10:41 pm
Just started using this editor. It quikly started to move among the top 4 editors I use in developement.
Can’t wait for a more mature release.
16. Jaigouk
11.05.2007 at 6:44 pm
This is awesome. I’ll buy. I’ve spent several months to find an editor like textmate on windows. And all tries were painful. Now I found intype.
17. Shahzad khan
13.05.2007 at 8:06 am
I hope the coming stuff is gonna be even better, I’ve started to use intype instead of Dreamweaver more, though I do have to jump back to DW sometimes !
18. pablo
17.05.2007 at 8:14 am
this NEEDS a search/find/replace function! I’d be using this if it had it. The work im doing now needs a find function badly and i just can’t try this out if it doesn’t have this basic function!
19. Arik
24.05.2007 at 8:07 pm
See the e-text editor… its actually going somewhere in a reasonable amount of time. None of this release every 2 months bull crap going on here. E has find, tabs, project management and works *almost* seamlessly with textmate bundles via cygwin.
20. tstrokes
24.05.2007 at 11:52 pm
Yes e does have those features, as do many of the other text editors that are out there. Intype will have them too and if you are patient Intype will exceed your expectations. If you are already using e I don’t see the need to complain about Intype’s release dates. Also, if you hadn’t noticed most applications don’t release every month or even every year.