For a while now I've been meaning to implement 
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-25964 to save myself the trouble 
of accidentally closing pinned files. Currently, pinned files are only immune 
from Close All, but closing via Ctrl+W, context menu, etc. will still close 
them without any prompt.

I'm curious if anyone has opinions on potential solutions to this. Should we:

- Ask the user if they want to close the pinned file, defaulting to "No", and 
with the option to never ask again? To me, allowing the option to never ask 
again seems to defeat the purpose of pinning files; it's too easy to 
accidentally close pinned files in the future.
- Tell the user that pinned files cannot be closed, and that they have to be 
unpinned first. This option is perhaps less convenient, but in my experience, I 
almost never want to close pinned files, so it seems more foolproof. For those 
that dislike this, perhaps there could be a link to the settings to permanently 
disable it.

What do you think?
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