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Ant6n
Ant6n

Reputation: 2007

PyCharm: How to reduce horizontal use of space

I Like to set up PyCharm to have a terminal, a code editor and the structure view side by side to maximize the vertical space for each. This makes sense since each of those generally isn't very wide, and screens are very wide these days. On my laptop, I'm kind of running out of horizontal space, especially when code uses 115 text columns. But I also see a lot of 'wasted' space.

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So my question is, how do I get PyCharm to use less horizontal space?

I've searched the settings and Google, but I couldn't find anything about how to do the following

  1. The buttons for the terminal (+, x) should be in the header (or remove the button bar altogether).
  2. The Divider bar between the terminal and the editor doesn't have to be 2 characters wide.
  3. The space between line numbers and the editor could be reduced or removed (break points could just sit on top of the line numbers).
  4. The structure view doesn't need to have root entry for the filename, with all children and thus being indented. 5.) The structure view uses a lot of unnecessary indentation.

Thanks for any help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 532

Answers (1)

Dan Cornilescu
Dan Cornilescu

Reputation: 39824

For #1 right-click on the Terminal's top bar or its toolbar tab (works for any tool) and you'll get a popup menu in which you can de-select the Show Toolbar option:

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All the tools that can show up in the left/right sidebars can be:

  • moved to the bottom toolbar (using the Move to options in the above-mentioned popup menu), thus chewing vertical space instead of horizontal space

  • hidden when not used (by simple click on the tools' toolbar tab), the remaining displayed panes are automatically extended to fill the horizontal space

  • completely decoupled in separate, independent windows by selecting the Windowed Mode in the above-mentioned popup menu. My personal preference is to do that at least with the Terminal (as well as the Run and Inspect) windows, I rarely need them in the same window as the code. Check out the other modes or their combinations as well, maybe something looks better for you.

Finally, you might like the View -> Enter Distraction Free Mode option :)

Upvotes: 0

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