The two panes in a window's tab are divided by a vertical splitter bar that can be dragged to give more space to either the view or the text pane. By default a tab opens with a 50:50 split between the two halves. The splitter can be moved manually to give a desired ratio of the two panes. The current splitter position is saved and remembered between sessions. When the input cursor is over the draggable part of the splitter bar
Resizing the document window by dragging its left/right edges or any corner retains the split ratio. If the view pane to text pane ratio is 2:1, dragging the window wider will retain a 2:1 balance between the panes.
A Cmd+drag of the window will re-size it so as to retain the current text pane width, i.e. all extra pane width is added to/removed from the (left) view pane only.
Three shortcuts are offered to toggle one of 3 states:
- Cmd+4 / Text Only. The splitter is moved all the way to the left of the window so the text pane fills the whole window.
- Cmd+5 / View and Text. The splitter is placed so there is an equal division between the left (view) and right (text) panes.
- Cmd+6 / View Only. The splitter is moved all the way to the right of the window so the view pane fills the whole window.
The Cmd+5 shortcut always gives a 50:50 equal pane width allocation and so overrides any pre-existing split ratio. There is no current mechanism to remember and return to a custom pane split ratio after using Cmd+4or Cmd+6.
Tinderbox remembers the state of the text pane selector between sessions.
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