

You can stack the sub-windows vertically rather than horizontally by right-clicking the divider, then clicking “Rotate to right” or “Rotate to left”. Tip: Rotating “right” means 90 degrees clockwise, while “left” means 90 degrees anti-clockwise. You can switch them to be one above the other instead, by right-clicking on the divider then clicking “Rotate to right” or “Rotate to left”. The sub-windows default to being side by side. You can scroll a cloned file independently, this can be particularly useful if you want to check how something was defined at the top of a document while editing something further down the document. A very useful diff plugin to show the difference between: 2 files (side by side) Diff against Git (with the help of libgit2) Diff against SVN (with the help of sqlite) Diff since last Save Build Status.

After a document is cloned, any change to one will instantly affect the other version too, they will remain identical. “Clone to Other View” opens a second copy of the document, your current changes to the document will carry to the cloned document. Using “Move to Other View” is helpful if you want to specifically have two different documents open. “Clone to Other View” will open a second copy of the tab in the other sub-window or create one if needed. “Move to Other View” will move the tab over to the other sub-window, or create one if there isn’t one already. Right-click on an open tab, then click “Move to Other View” or “Clone to Other View”. To split the Notepad++ window into two sub-windows, right-click on an open tab, then click “Move to Other View” or “Clone to Other View”.
