Unity4 mono develop can't find split view

[nicloay]

I see here that split view for a single file is supported starting from version 2.0 of monodevelop,

But in unity4 i can’t find where it located is.

I expected to find it in Window → Split View but didn’t find it there.

[Philipp]

I don’t think it’s anywhere in the menus, but you can assign a shortcut for it in the key bindings:
Go into Preferences/Key Bindings, and type “Split” into the search box. You’ll see entries for “Split Horizontally” and “Unsplit”. I’ve assigned Alt+S and Alt+Shift+S to these respectively.

Note that it’s really just a split view for the same file. You can’t have one file in the top part and another in the bottom.

[Zogg]

Thank you, it’s working. Well, kind of.

I couldn’t assign Alt+S (the key bindings interface won’t cooperate) so I entered other keys.

But that’s not the problem. The problem is that once I split the screen, the editor goes nuts. Undo isn’t possible in the lower window, and after some minutes whole sections of the code transform into random text. Something like

er f ads, x; 3 f
xpe tyt e
  ; -5eex vvf  a2; 
d
 ; rze 1
kls ;dds aaaza; da a
3

When this happens, edition has random effects, and undo will just make it worse. Maybe you can save your code with copy-pasting the whole window content - I don’t know…

I tried the split screen twice, it happened twice - I’m not trying it again.

Now I understand why the split screen was removed from the menus. They probably just forgot to remove it from the key bindings. If you don’t want to lose work, I strongly advise against using the split screen.

[hal69]

This is working perfectly, thank you for the tip