I also use one cloned view for searching and one for editing. Each view maintains its own cursor position and text selection. For example split the view between two different chapters of the same document to cross reference and check consistency. Views are also a tremendous help for editing large documents. Hitting ⌘-K and the upper arrow returns me to where I was typing. The lower pane is selected and the cursor is where I positioned it when I created the pane. When I want to create a new footnote, I hit ⌘-K and then the down arrow. I then return to my writing in the top pane. I scroll the bottom pane to the bottom of the document and position the cursor on a new line. For example, while working on a long post to this site, I will clone the current document into a new pane with Origami. Rather than use the limited layout tool, Origami provides actions to clone the current document to a new horizontal or vertical pane. Origami is a better way to manage multiple panes in Sublime Text 2.
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They are two (or more) views on the same text buffer and all views are updated as one pane is modified (it is not necessary to save the document to update the other views). The views are independent but joined together. Panes split the window into vertical and horizontal views that contain document tabs. Sublime Text 2 supports multiple view panes.