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Arranging and grouping tabbed editors

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Arranging and grouping tabbed editors

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- [Instructor] I've got 5 tabs open in the IDE, its possible to split the tabs into tab groups this is useful when you want to see the contents of more than one file. Before I show the groups, let me make some room by auto-hiding the docked windows. To make a horizontal group, right click in one of the tabs, choose this fleet xml, right click here and choose new horizontal tab group now you can see there's one tab on the bottom of the screen and four tabs on the top of the screen, this bottom editor is a normal code editor, I can edit the code, I can do all the same tasks that I could do if the tab was at the top half of the window. When I close this tab the new horizontal group disappears. I can make a vertical tab group with the same technique, right click, choose new vertical tab group. I find this view more useful, because I can compare lines of code next to each other. Naturally I can size this windows by grabbing the sizing handle in between and I can also move items between…

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