Py Editor MAC USER MANUALpythoneditor.io ↗ · Version 27.0.3 (33)

Arrange panels and windows

Show the tools you need, hide the ones you don't, and give a panel its own window.

Switch tools without switching files

  1. Click Project, Find, Commit or Learn on the left rail to fill the upper left slot.
  2. Click Structure or Bookmarks for the lower slot. Clicking the active one again collapses that slot.
  3. Click an icon in the Results header — Run, Tests, Coverage, Profiler, Terminal, Problems, Packages or Git log — to change the bottom dock.
  4. Click AI Assistant, Services or Ollama on the right rail.

Changing a tool does not change the selected file or stop a run.

Hide and show the left column

  1. Choose View → Toggle Sidebar to hide the left panels. The rail stays.
  2. Press Control-Command-S to bring them back.

To hide only one panel, open Manage panel in its header and choose Minimize. Click that panel's rail button to bring it back. When the whole Results dock is minimized, click Results in the status bar to reopen it.

To remove a tool button from every project window, open Manage panel → Remove from Toolbar, or use Application Settings → Tool Windows, where Restore Defaults brings them all back.

Resize the areas

  1. Drag the divider between the left column and the editor to change its width.
  2. Drag the divider between the upper and lower left panels to give one more height.
  3. Drag the divider above Results to change the dock's height, and the one beside the right column to change its width.
  4. Double-click a divider to return that split to its preset size.

Panel sizes and the selected panels are remembered for each project.

Open a panel in its own window

  1. Open Manage panel in the panel's header.
  2. Choose Open in Window.
  3. Work in the separate window, which carries the panel's name.
  4. Open Manage panel in that window and choose Dock in Workspace to put it back.

The Project file browser in its own window beside the workspaceOpen the screenshot to view it at full size.

Closing a detached window with its red button does not dock the panel; click the panel's rail button to bring it back into the workspace.

To recover a detached window you minimized, open the app's Window menu and choose the panel's name from the window list.

Move between project windows

Each project opens in its own window. Choose a project's name from the macOS Window menu to bring it forward, or open it again from File → Recent Projects.