I have used VSCode for much of my career (for historical .NETy reasons) and really like its ability to split editor panes. Particularly the ability to split horizontally and vertically. I was bummed when moving to Xcode and found I wasn’t able to do this…Until now!
How to do split editor vertically in Xcode
- Open Xcode (seems like it has to be a project, not a playground)
- Go to File -> New -> Editor Below (ctrl + option + cmd + T)
This is very exciting, but I look forward to when other editors support the VSCode feature of dragging those pane corners more than one direction at a time. (VSCode allows you to grab at the corner of two panes and drag horizontally, vertically, or diagonally all in one motion while Xcode and Nova only allow one direction per click).