[wingide-users] tool-related commands and multiple windows

[Wing IDE Support]

On 3/17/11 2:27 PM, Mitchell Model wrote:
> There have been discussions a number of times about the problems with having multiple Debug I/O window and never knowing where the output is going to show up. I just ran into a similar problem that convinces me that this is a more general problem: tool-related actions, including commands, do not take into account the user's likely association of a window's tools with the editing and debugging activity in that particular window.

Debug I/O is it's own case and has problems specific to it.  The general 
algorithm for tools such as Search in Files is to look for an instance 
in the window, then look for the last used instance outside of the 
window, and finally to create a new instance if none is found.  I just 
tried to replicate your problem with batch-search-forward and could not. 
  Could you send us your preferences directly?  It may be dependent on 
the layout mode or another preference.

Thanks,

John