Currently, if I have several tabs open and want to close some of them, I have
two possibilities:

  (1) Click on each tab I want to close, and select File/Close (or use the
corresponding shortcut), or

  (2) Double-click on the tab, provided I have activated this feature in the
settings.

(1) is convenient if I want to close the current tab, but cumbersome if I want
to close several ones.

(2) is convenient for people for whom a double click is convenient. It's a
question of motoric. I try to do as much as possible with a single click, and I
have set on my system the double-click interval higher than the default, because
I otherwise have trouble double-clicking fast enough so that Windows recognizes
it as double click instead of two single clicks.

My proposal is that another possibilitiy is offered to close a tab (of course,
not mandatory, but configurable via the options, so that users are nor forced to
use them). Here a few suggestions for the user interaction (of course it would
be sufficient to implement only one of them):

(a) Have a small X displayed on the tab. A single click on this X closes the
tab.

(b) Draw a part of the tab (for instance the right 20% of it) in a different
background colour. A single click on this 'closing' area closes the tab.

(c) By gesture: Clicking and dragging the tab outside of the editor area would
close the tab.

(d) Allow several tabs to be selected (by shift-clicking or control-clicking on
each tab to be closed), and then use File/Close to actually close all the
selected tabs.

-- 
Ronald Fischer (Germany)


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