Editing text file in one window.. with clone in another..

Was about to ask if anyone knew a program to do this, but then discovered Notepad++ does it... and thought I'd pass it on.

If you open up your text file (eg offline LSL script) in Notepad++, you can open a second window that's a clone of it... i.e. any changes in one window affect the version in the other window. So you can make changes to a script while checking bits of the script further down.. so change functions and calls to that function without scrolling back and forth.

Sorry if everyone knows this, but I got all excited!

It may not seem like much to most people but any little tricks that can improve our work flow and efficiency can have a huge impact and of course some of us are easily pleased anyways.

Glad it helps you, personally I make use of bookmarks to quickly tab between the different, relevant parts of code. If I am doing a major change on a script, then I have the original and a second versioned copy open at the same time to perform surgery on, just in case I screw up .

I often use vim (http://www.vim.org/) for this sort of thing, opening the file in read-only mode in one window and read-write mode in the other. The changes only propagate when you save (and then confirm that you want to re-load the file), but if you are working on one section and referring to another, that's not normally an issue.