Open multiple documents

[PauLuke]

When I open a new document, it closes the later. How can I solve this?

[ahrm]

If you are using the command line, you can pass the --new-instance option to open a new sioyek instance. Alternatively, you can set new-instance 1 in your prefs_user.config to make this is default behaviour.
See https://sioyek-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/configuration.html?highlight=new-instance#should-launch-new-instance.

Also in new version of sioyek we have added a --new-window command line option as well as a new_window command within sioyek itself which is more efficient than new-instance. It is not available in 1.3.0 release though, so you have to compile it yourself or use the preview builds here:
https://github.com/hexomancer/sioyek/releases/tag/v0.31.336

[PauLuke]

Now I get it. Thanks for the reply and also for the amazing program.

[andriandreo]

Thus, regarding the default configuration, new documents should be opened as new windows by default, right? This is not happening in my case (Arch Linux, sioyek 2.0.0, sioyek AUR pkg). Thanks!

[andriandreo]

--new-window in command line does work. But nothing regarding should_launch_new_window 1 inside prefs_user.config (the rest of configs such as custom highlighting are indeed applied).

[ahrm]

Does the issue happen with appimage builds in the release section of this repo?

[andriandreo]

Yes, the issue is happening for both AUR pkg and AppImage in Release v2.0.0

[davdent]

I have a very similar issue running Sioyek 2.0 on Ubuntu 23.10. Setting should_launch_new_window 1 inside pref_user.config does not work. And in my case, passing --new-window on the command line does not work. Also, neither passing --new-instance on the command line, nor setting should_launch_new_instance 1 work for me. When I try to pass --new-instance on the command line, I get the message "Unknown option 'new-instance". However, other configs set in prefs_user.config are being applied as expected.

[jackvhughes]

having the same issue as above with MacOS Sonoma 14.5 M2

[RYQ-22]

Same. shold_launch_new_window 1 doesn't work with the AppImage version.