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Asked: 2026-05-25T19:14:10+00:00

I’m looking for a free/oss multiple window code text editor (Perl + other languages)

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I’m looking for a free/oss multiple window code text editor (Perl + other languages) for viewing/editing different sections of same file. Can you recommend one for Windows platform?

Currently I use Notepad++ which is good and has a tab for each file. But it doesn’t allow opening the same file more than once in different tabs to be able to view different parts of the file. I would also like to ‘tear-off’ a tab to make a new window (just like in Google Chrome) so I can see different parts of the same file side by side.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In Notepad++ (5.9.3 at least) right click on the tab of a version and select Clone to Other View.

    Voila! Editing the same file in two different tabs. You can also drag the tab out of the window and ‘drop’ it on the desktop to open another instance of Notepad++.

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