gedit - comparing two files similtaneously by eye

[Celauran]

So this leaves you with two instances of gedit running, each of which you can resize? Is that the idea? Or did I miss something and you can actually resize tabs within one instance of gedit?

[llamabr]

I don't use gedit, and I'm sure it can do this.

This would also be a perfect job for screen, which would split the screen in a terminal, allowing you to open two instances of nano.

I'd probably use diff for this, tho.

[sonicb00m]

Comparing files side by side in gedit is not a proper solution, in my opinion.

A tool like Diffuse is exteremely powerful in that it highlights the changes and adds white space in your views so you pretty much are always looking at the identical code parts in syncronisation. Saves a lot of scrolling between two different files.

[techie2go]

try meld

[nandemonai]

If you really want to use gedit then just drag one of the tabs out and it will act as a separate instance of the program.

That said there are better alternatives mentioned in this thread.