Work in several windows

Each window shows one exploration with its own index, editor tabs, chat sessions and terminal. Several windows can be open at once, for example the backend in one and the frontend in another.

To look up code in another project without opening it, attach it as a reference project instead. A reference is read-only, appears in the graph and search of the current exploration, and is available to the AI.

Open a second window

Use one of:

• File › New Window (Cmd+N, Windows/Linux: Ctrl+N). The window opens on the welcome screen. Pick an exploration there.
• File › New Window with Project…. Choose an exploration folder. The new window opens it directly.

The title bar of each window shows the display name of its exploration. The Window menu of macOS lists the windows by that name.

Open an exploration that is already open

An exploration can be open in one window only. When you open it in a second window, from the welcome screen, File › Open Exploration… or File › Open Recent, Tracemoor asks "This exploration is already open in another window. Switch to it?". OK brings the other window to the front.

Close a window

• File › Close Exploration closes the exploration. The window stays open. The shortcut Cmd+W (Windows/Linux: Ctrl+W) first closes the active editor tab when the Source View or the Graph + Editor Split is showing. It closes the exploration when no tab is left or another view is showing.
• The close button of the window closes the window.

Tracemoor starts with one window. It reopens the exploration that was last open, not the other windows of the last session.