[Suggestion] Edit on the right

[BarbzYHOOL]

Like in sidebarenhancements, edit on the right, open a second panel

(however I don't know how to close it lol)

[braver]

The implementation in SideBarEnhancements is a bit naive in that it simply forces a 2-pane layout and moves the file to the second pane. If you already have a multi-pane layout, that's now gone.

Nowadays we also have Sublime Text 4, and you can command-click a file in the sidebar to open it in a split view. So in a sense you already have this feature.

But maybe existing layouts can be resolved in an elegant way that would make it a nice addition to this package. I'm going to leave this here for now, maybe someone can pick this up and improve on it.

class SideBarOpenSplitCommand(MultipleFilesMixin, SideBarCommand):

    def run(self, paths):
        window = self.window
        window.run_command(
            "set_layout",
            {
                "cols": [0.0, 0.5, 1.0],
                "rows": [0.0, 1.0],
                "cells": [[0, 0, 1, 1], [1, 0, 2, 1]],
            },
        )
        window.focus_group(1)
        paths = self.get_paths(paths)

        for path in paths:
            view = sublime.active_window().open_file(path)
            view.settings().set("open_with_edit", True)
            window.set_view_index(view, 1, 0)

    def is_visible(self, paths):
        paths = self.get_paths(paths)
        for path in paths:
            if os.path.isdir(path):
                return False
        return True

    def description(self):
        return 'Open File In New Group'

[braver]

I’ll class this as “won’t fix” because packages and features already exist to manage multiple panes, and interfacing with that is out of scope for this package.