gedit/xed view enhancement
I miss one wonderful editor feature from Sun Microsystems "textedit" editor. The user was able to split (any number of times) the view of a single file into several horizontal views of the file - all were independently scrollable and re-sizable within the surrounding real session window as needed. This allowed things like 3 sub-windows (E.G. one for structs, one for calling code, one for called code) to be viewed concurrently and easily in one open session. The net result was to speed the development process. Now I have to bring up other terminal windows with "vi" in them if all needed source is in one file, but I MUST NOT change things in the "vi" windows - just view - OR I screw up the main editor (Xed or Gedit). The alternative (perhaps newer) way is to split the file into multiple include files (.h or equivalent) so you can view them side by side in one session. The disadvantage of this is that you can only literally see one source at a time if one session, or alternatively you can split sources into several session windows (the physical screen width limits the use of this latter for concurrent viewing - for me: 2 sessions is OK, 3 is miserable, 4 or more worthless). There were times I had 5 or more sub-windows viewing ONE source file (cannot remember why), making development much quicker.
Please consider adding this feature to either or both editors in the future. It was simply wonderful and saved a lot of time back and forth scrolling.