[mechanicum]

A small practical example of how you might use this: https://imgur.com/mTS0vHO

Helix on the left and a Clojure repl at top-right in terminal panes. Portal data viewer in a browser pane at bottom-right.

[fny]

But why wouldn't you just use any old window tiling manager?

[yunwal]

Having 2 separate windows requires an extra mouseclick for any interaction on most OSes. For example, try to highlight text on a non-focused window.

Obviously a tiny extra effort, and not sure it justifies this feature, but it can add up for some things.

[Wowfunhappy]

Fwiw macOS does not require an extra mouse click for this, outside of limited circumstances (likely very limited these days) such as X11 apps.

[Wowfunhappy]

Actually wait... yes it does need an extra click for text selection! Scrolling works without focusing the window though.

[Anonbrit]

Because all the editor keyboard shortcuts and such work in the browser tab