I wondered how long it would take for this issue to show up. :)

I'm afraid there's no chance of me implementing tabs though. They don't go with
MinTTY's basic approach of keeping things small and simple. More generally, I think
multiple document interfaces and tabs are a Bad Idea™, and even Microsoft themselves
are moving away from them in Office. The problem that tabs try to address needs to be
solved at the window manager level, and not separately in every app. Windows 7 is
meant to make progress in this area. WinTabber from http://www.wintabber.com will
aggregate any application windows into tabbed windows, although unfortunately it's
not free for Cygwin apps (or PuTTY).

Stepping off the soapbox, tabs would be a big job to implement, as they would require
a major redesign of both the Windows frontend and the pty backend. See also
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/multiple-connections.html

Ah, fair enough, mate.  Thanks for your explanation.

...never hurts to ask, right ;)

Reopened with priority "None", so that it appears in the list of open issues, in the
hope of avoiding duplicates.

While I know that tabs/multi-document interfaces are an emotive issue, I do like
tabbed designs too, even if they make the application larger.

However I do find that GNU screen at the server end mitigates the problem to some extent.

I'd like to see it as a feature but accept that I probably wont get it!

Good program BTW.

tabs would be great.
wintabber is quite buggy with mintty.. it doesn't resize the window

 Issue 72  has been merged into this issue.

_if_ someone really needs tabs for shell-environments, then using GNU screen would imho 
be an way better idea.

its just meant to be controlled by keyboard, wheras graphical tabs are designed for 
mice.

The resizing problem with WinTabber seems to have been sorted by the fix for  issue 76 
in 0.3.9.

I couldn't agree more with comment 1.  I was very surprised to hear this from someone 
other than myself.  Wintabber looks good at first glance.  I'll try it... but it 
can't force my favorite editor to use 1 window per document unfortunately.

I stumbled across a utility that blows WinTabber out of the water: WindowTabs,
available from http://www.windowtabs.com.

It can group any windows, with Google Chrome-style tabs on top of the window, and it
seems to work well with MinTTY. See also attached screenshot.

Unfortunately it's not Free either, but there's a free trial that allows up to three
tabs.

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Here's a project that shows how to make a tabbed wrapper for MinTTY (and much more
besides): http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net. And it's GPLed, although written in Delphi.

I came to the issue tracker only to find this feature request, confident it would
exist. I was surprised to Comment #1, but after some thought I have to agree. This
*is* the sort of thing that should be solved at the window manager level. In an ideal
world, anyway.

I've just never had any confidence that a window manager will ever do it right, which
is why I'm used to seeing this solved over and over again at the application level.
Thanks for the fresh injection of optimism and idealism. Best of luck!

In the mean time I'll try WindowTabs.