Security News > 2022 > December > The horror! The horror! NOTEPAD gets tabbed editing (very briefly)
Even command windows, which used to be just what they said, went "Tabbed" somewhere in the 1990s, and have been ever since.
If you want two command windows these days, you can either have two on-screen windows, as the name suggests.
Edge, for example has unashamedly distinct menu items entitled New tab Ctrl+T and New window Ctrl+N, which respectively open new tabs in the current window, and new windows in new windows.
Some Unix window managers take the tabbing metaphor even further, allowing you to take any two windows, even if they belong to completely different apps, and turn them into a pair of tabs inside a single window.
There are some old-school programs that have resolutely resisted this trend, notably including the venerable, built-in, no-frills-please, party-like-it's-1979 Windows text editor NOTEPAD. Strictly speaking, it's notepad.exe these days, and it's been quietly announcing itself as Notepad in the title bar for years now, but it still feels wrong to write about it without putting the whole word in CAPITAL LETTERS, just as you used to do for COMMAND.COM and CONFIG.SYS. You can open two NOTESPAD, and the program even has a menu item for opening a second window.
There's New Ctrl+N, which literally just opens a new file in the current window, and New window Ctrl+Shift+N. Opening a new window does what it says, but - by default at least - carefully places the new window smack on top of the old one, so you can pretend you still have only one window if that makes you feel less anxious.