Multiple windows in Visual Studio

Question

I\'ve just come to Visual Studio 2008 from a UNIX / Java background.

In Visual Studio, how can I have multiple overlapping editor windows? In Eclipse, I can open a new

Answer 1

If you are a vim user, and install VsVim, you have an effective work around for dealing the quirky behaviour Visual studio has for moving between file editing windows.

You can easily make vertical and horizontal split windows within the "main" file editing window, just as you would in vim, using the regular vim keys. e.g. with any of the regular vim commands :vs, s, v, ...

If you tear off a second editing window (e.g. with the mouse) and put it on a separate monitor, you can use Vim's global marks, or w (and similar commands for navigating between panes in vim) to jump between file editing windows across different monitors/screens with just a few keys.