edit-in-new-tab

Opens the current selection in a new tab. Based on an idea by Lea Verou.

Screenshot

Edit selection in a new tab

Screenshot

Edit in new tab and write changes back to origin

Installation

Install edit-in-new-tab from Atom's Package Manager or the command-line equivalent:

$ apm install edit-in-new-tab

Change to your Atom packages directory:

# Windows
$ cd %USERPROFILE%\.atom\packages

# Linux & macOS
$ cd ~/.atom/packages/

Clone the repository as edit-in-new-tab:

$ git clone https://github.com/idleberg/atom-edit-in-new-tab edit-in-new-tab

Inside the cloned directory, install Node dependencies:

$ yarn || npm install

This package provides several commands in the command palette, the context menu or by using the keyboard shortcuts

Edit in New Tab: Copy Selection – Edit current selection in new tab (Ctrl+Shift+T)
Edit in New Tab: Settings – Open the settings pane for this package

It's well worth taking a look at the package settings, where you can tweak the default behaviour.

Option	Default	Description
Synchronize Changes	`true`	Writes changes in the new tab back to the origin¹
Target Pane		Specifies the default pane for the new tab
Auto-indent Origin	`false`	Auto indent changes written back to the originating tab
Ignore Scope	`false`	Doesn't apply the origin's grammar on the new tab
Default Tab-name		Define a default scheme for new tabs²
Select	`false`	Selects the newly added text
Auto-indent	`true`	Indents all inserted text appropriately
Auto-indent New Line	`true`	Indent newline appropriately
Auto-decrease Indent	`true`	Decreases indent level appropriately
Normalize Line Endings	`true`	Normalizes line endings

¹ see it in action
² accepts placeholders %file%, %id%, and %count%

This work is licensed under the The MIT License.

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