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Ability to "snap" windows

Often I have two class browser windows side by side in in the jade IDE. There are times I've used a spanned screen and had four windows. To set up this behaviour I open two/four class browsers, minimise the schema browser and press Alt + W, V (tile vertical.) Sometimes the scrollbars in Jade get confused when the minimised schema browser window is off the screen, so I have to redo the process but make sure the schema browser is top left.

That was long and winded wasn't it? I suspect many people won't bother with doing all of that in the first place. Wouldn't it be nice to just grab a window and go far left with the mouse to snap it left. Or use some key combination to actually snap your windows to a position. Another technique is to have two state buttons for each window, as you press down on a button it will show the window automatically tiled in (moving the tabs moves the window order position) - this is my preferred technique but it might confuse developers.
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Mathew Hylkema 5/09/2018 1:57:31 PM
This would be a handy feature. Currently I achieve something similar by setting the class browsers to float and use windows snap feature.

Brian Johnstone 28/08/2018 2:15:50 PM
Nice idea. Currently I achieve this by running multiple IDEs and using Windows snap if more than 2 full screen IDEs is required. This has the added advantage of allowing you to navigate the other 'tiled' window while a modal dialog is displayed by the other IDE. Useful when adding properties to say a DTO class and you want to name them the same as the property on the persistent model class from which that property on the DTO class will be populated.
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