View & Themes

Split view

⌘\ splits the window into two independent views of the same document — same edits, same find results, separately scrollable. Compare a stack trace on line 40 with its cause on line 80,000.

One document, two viewports. Highlights, selections, and edits mirror instantly; scrolling stays independent.

Themes

Caxton ships two carefully matched appearances — Dark and Light — plus System, which follows macOS automatically. The switch is the real macOS appearance API, so every window, panel, and sheet follows.

The light theme on the same 10 GB document.

Status bar

The status bar is the instrument panel:

• Ln / Col — cursor position, byte-accurate on any line length.
• Mode pill — Whole-File, Slice (with the loaded range), or Tail, plus the Follow toggle for growing logs.
• Encoding · line endings — UTF-8 · LF at a glance.
• Lines · size — live counts (2,083,723 rows × 50 columns in CSV mode) with indexing/parsing progress while background work runs.

Zoom and layout

• ⌘+ / ⌘− / ⌘0 — text zoom.
• Native full screen, window tabs, and the standard macOS toolbar behaviors all apply.