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TextPad 4 still supported MDI and its huge advantage was that I was able to freely position all windows inside TextPad. With TextPad 5 this was dropped, and I always wondered which reasons for this apply:

1. supporting MDI causes too much work
2. it was because of introducing appearance/skins/themes
3. other reason.

Handling multiple documents side by side since then has become a bit cumbersome. It kind of works, but it's just not what it used to be.

TextPad is still an MDI app. I wouldn't use it if it wasn't. But windows can't be overlapped if document tabs are turned on. I use the document selector instead.

ben_josephs wrote:TextPad is still an MDI app
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if document tabs are turned on

I thought "this implies I can disable tabs - but where" and then tried menu "View" > "Document Tabs". Wow, never recognized this. Thanks alot. Much better now.

It's all about asking any question at all.