Midnight Commander Editor is multifile with resizable windows

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      if you run it for more than one file, it comes up in window mode, and you can press F9 to open the top menu bar and W to pulldown the Window menu. You can then resize and move the windows. When the are on the screen you just click them to bring them into focus. One drawback is that it doesn’t have a directory browser on the Open dialog, so you are best to open them all coming in from the command line.

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        They are adding automatic cascading and tiling windows for the editor in the next version. I liked the cascading ones best. I was the requester and initial tester for the feature. It’s actually very nice, just click in the window of that file and it comes to forefront. The editor has macros too. These features put it way above most console editors that are limited to one file or don’t have macros available.

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