The floating windows reminds me of the text editor called sam. You have floating resizable windows in the editor, one window being a command window to operate o

The floating windows reminds me of the text editor called sam. You have floating resizable windows in the editor, one window being a command window to operate on the current buffer text. It's a powerful idiom . Here's a screenshot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor)#mediaviewer/File:Sam_text_editor.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor)#mediaviewer/F... The most different editor is 'ed' though :)