The split screen doesn't close

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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I also have the problem, that the split screen doesn't close, even if I restart the IDE. There is no pattern in the replace field. How can I close this second screen?

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Hi @projectdevelop.

I'll provide instructions you can follow to close these split editor panels:

  1. Press the Ctrl+Shift+P keyboard shortcut (Command+Shift+P for macOS users) to open the "Command Palette".
    A menu will appear on the editor toolbar:
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  2. Select the "View: Reset Workbench Layout" command from the menu.
    ⓘ You can scroll down through the list of commands to find it or type the name in the field.

By the way, not necessarily related to the problem you experienced, but I notice from your screenshot that you are using a significantly outdated version of Arduino IDE (2.0.4). Unless you have some specific reason for using that version, I highly recommend you to update to the latest version (2.2.1 at the time of writing). There has been a tremendous amount of development work since the 2.0.4 release of Arduino IDE you are using, including important bug fixes and enhancements.

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Thank you. I'll update the IDE right now.

Another update is not done yet, that I also wanted to run.

The reason that I didn't update it was that I cannot select the button in the board manager because it is so much text in the IDE that the button is not available. I want to do the update manually, because I don't want to update all the libraries. (I use the function getFormattedDate() in other projects. This function is lost if I do an automatic update.

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You are welcome. I'm glad if I was able to be of assistance.

I remember some bugs like that:

They were fixed some versions back. Please let us know if you still experience the problem after updating the IDE to 2.2.1

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I'm using IDE 2.3.0 and still get the split screen on search/replace, and it doesn't close when the search is closed or search term cleared. View>reset workbench layout does work.

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Hi @krhorner116

It is the intended design of the IDE. It gives a preview of the changes that would result from the replace operation.

This is normal and expected. Simply click the X icon on the tab when you are ready to close it:

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