In split view mode, when I click on a new item in the binder it only appears in the right window, even if the focus is on the left. I do not have Lock in Place on in either window. The only way i’ve found to force a new document into the left pane is to right-click on the header and use the Go To option. I’ve been searching for a setting controlling this but I can’t find anything.
Thanks!
Given the circumstances you describe, the only setting I can think of resulting in this behavior is (right-click any binder-item, it counts for all):
(or possibly Top / Left vs. Bottom / Right Editor Only)
ADD: You can also get there via the Navigate menu.
If you want consistency when working with a split editor, meaning that you don’t have to double-check to see which editor has focus and do the extra clicking (say one document is in what you consider to be your “second” editor, as a reference – not the document on which you are actively working – and that you now want to change for another : you’d have to give it focus first), one good way to go about it is to set what @November_Sierra screenshotted to be the editor (left or right, top or bottom) that you consider as your main one. Then you leave the said setting like that forever.
Once you built the expectation that a binder selection affects the left editor (or top or right, whichever) no matter what, it is then easy, as a reflex, to go Alt+click (Windows – I don’t know what the Mac equivalant is) when you specifically want a file to rather load in the right (other) editor.
I’ve been doing it like that for a very long time. I never have to question anything ; and it never fails.
It’s basically the same (⌥ option = Alt).
@Vincent_Vincent But since you’re here. Does this also happen: When you set Binder Selection Affects to Top Editor Only, it consequently opens documents in the bottom editor (same effect for Left Editor Only, everything goes to the right editor). And vice versa. 
Yeah. It does the opposite (editor-wise) than what is set.
So, set to Left Editor → Alt-click → Loads in the right editor.
Set to Bottom Editor → Alt-click → Loads in the top editor.
I had Binder Selection Affects somehow set to Both Editors, which explains why even when one side was the current editor the other side still had the blue color in the header. When i set it to Current Editor it works as i was expecting it to. I thought there was a setting somewhere but didn’t think to look there 
. I can see how the various options in that setting could be useful in different situations. Thanks for the quick and helpful feedback!! (and I really love this app 
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Great. I thought I had suffered a stroke or something.
ADD: Not sure what caused this effect, but Navigate → Clear All Navigation Options fixed it. Now Scrivener knows what left or top means. Weird.
I don’t follow. I never had anything noticeable happen (Windows).
Clicking loads in the set editor ; Alt-clicking loads in the other (as in not set) editor.
Nothing else.
I see how that’s confusing. What just happened was: It set it to “Right / Bottom Editor Only” and everything went to the left or top one, and “Left / Top Editor Only” sent everything to right or bottom one. No Alt-Click, no editor locked, etc. Always the opposite for no apparent reason. Probably a glitch. After “Clear All Navigation Options”, now it does what it says on the tin.
