[plt-scheme] Closing the current tab in DrScheme -- a roundabout way of doing it

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue May 30 17:05:08 EDT 2006

At Tue, 30 May 2006 16:55:25 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> On May 30, Robby Findler wrote:
> > At Tue, 30 May 2006 16:28:57 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > > On May 30, Danny Yoo wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > > 
> > > > I could not find a nice keybinding to close the current tab in
> > > > DrScheme.  I know some binding for this exists on the Mac platform,
> > > > but I couldn't find an equivalent for Linux.
> > > 
> > > Doesn't C-w do that?
> > 
> > It should close the tab if there are multiple tabs open and close
> > the window otherwise.
> 
> Yes, C-w seems to be exactly what I'd want to use...  (I'd go further
> and leave only a single `close' menu item that closes either the tab
> or the frame, since there is no point in a no-op close tab when there
> are no tabs.  Closing the whole window should be possible through the
> windowing system.)

Go look at the menus in the various situations. I think it does the
right thing (greying out is better than making them disappear, but
conventional GUI wisdom -- it lets you know there is a separate
operation, but that it doesn't apply at the moment).

Robby


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