Question

I have been looking into packages that would enable me to have tabs in my emacs editor. Would like to open multiple files in a single emacs window. Any help/link would be appreciated

Answer 1

Emacs has this functionality built in. They are called buffers C-x C-f opens a new file of a name you provide. C-x b lets you change between buffers. C-x C-b lists all open buffers. C-x k closes the current buffer.

If you want multiple buffers in one window then C-x 2 splits the windows horizontally. C-x 3 will split it vertically. C-x 1 will close all the windows that are not the current one. C-x o cycles between open panes. &c.

GNU the organization that manages the code base for GNU Emacs has a wonderful tutorial

Note: the the above segment C- means while holding the <CTRL> key

post script: the ido library makes working with emacs in generally much easier.