Texmaker (WinXP) : How to open documents in separate windows?

Question

Is it me or is it actually not possible to open Latex files in separate Windows with Texmaker? Does anyone know of a way?

Answer 1

TeXmaker doesn't seem to allow multiple instances, but TeXstudio (a fork of TeXmaker) can be started multiple times using --start-always option.

Answer 2

I created the following batch script to be able to run multiple instances of Texmaker. Once you opened a window, run this script and you will be able to open another instance. For this script you need the Sysinternals Handle utility to be in some folder of your %path% variable or in the same directory as the script.

@echo off
rem Determine Process ID
for /F "tokens=1,2" %%x in ('tasklist /FI "imagename EQ texmaker.exe" ^| find "texmaker.exe"') do (
    rem Find Lock handle and kill it. Then delete the lockfile
    for /F "delims=: tokens=1,2,3*" %%i in ('handle -a -p texmaker.exe ^| find "lockfile"') do (
        echo Killing handle %%i of processid %%y
        echo y | handle -c %%i -p %%y>nul
        del "%%k">nul 2>&1
    )
)
pause