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The reason for that is probably that Emacs has buffers to support parallel editing of multiple documents, and has had them long before TABs where popularized by

by kleiba 9y ago

The reason for that is probably that Emacs has buffers to support parallel editing of multiple documents, and has had them long before TABs where popularized by web browsers.

johnfn 9y ago
Vim has buffers too, but also realized the utility of tabs after a point.
- Spivak 9y ago
  They did but not in the way you suggest -- tabs in Vim are equivalent to Emacs perspectives. If you're using one tab per buffer you're missing out on a lot of functionality.