HTML-Kit Tools for Windows Duplicate Document Editor View

HTML-Kit Tools for window (Currently in Alpha version) has introduced a feature that is usually reserved for more expensive code editing suites and environments.

This second application (and improved sequel of the popular and free Web development application, HTML-Kit) has so far proven that a good and cost-effective application can be improved upon to make the current price of the released version ($45) a nominal cost for the many features and web development comforts that the two continue to offer.

In this document, I will discuss the addition of a duplicate document editor feature that enables the user to open a live duplicate of the current document in a second editing window with the ability to independently jump to and edit different parts of the same document.

Until now, most of us depended on the segment fold/expand feature to reduce the length of long code sequences in the editor to be able to view and edit two distant code sections of the same document simultaneously. Alternatively, one could open the same document in two instances of the editor; but not-only is this alternative cumbersome and inefficient, it requires the user to make sure that both instances of the document are up to date, and often involves required multiple displays/monitors.

Notably, on updating and saving one side of the duplicate view, the other is updated in the background without interrupting the editing view or intrusively refreshing the view and jumping to the beginning of the document (This used to happen in the live-update feature of the older HTML-Kit 292 Beta version of the application).

The added feature can be accessed from the text menu at the top of the application, or from a convenient icon that is added to the 'edit tab' of the application.