If your window manager is not able to manage your windows to your liking, you might want to fix it? Arguably creating a new window per tab is the correct thing

If your window manager is not able to manage your windows to your liking, you might want to fix it? Arguably creating a new window per tab is the correct thing to do. This allows your window manager to do its job. It is also more flexible, for example you can use something like tabbed (http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/ http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/) to group multiple applications into a tab-like interface. As for the editor case, in dwm/dvtm lingo each editor instance (or filename?) would get its own (dynamic?) tag. Therefore you can easily switch to a view which only contains your editor related windows. Again if your navigation among tmux windows is slow/cumbersome you might want to improve that instead of duplicating the functionality at another layer.