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steje wrote:
Well it certainly seems that there a plenty of people "viewing" this request topic. I wish they'd pipe up and voice their desire for the feature... 
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so here I am 
when tabs where introduced in total commander I considered them to be a dispensable although curious feature... for 2 days. I was so accustomed to having multiple copies of TC opened that it took me some time to realize the real power of tabs (besides the obvious space saving): they can be renamed, they can be locked and, above all, they can be combined (i.e., you may have one tab open with, say, a collection of files and 2 or more tabs open in the other panel with a different directory each, allowing you to quickly distribute the files to several directories) which, in fact, takes the 2-panel model to a pseudo n-panel
when I first tried dopus I spent more time looking for this feature (I couldn't believe it was absent in such a great program, so I thought that simply I was unable to find it) than enjoying this new found marvel!