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The Middle-click diesn't seem to be used at all in eclipse 3.0. For instance, It would be nice to be able to close an editor with a Middle-click in the editor tab.
Do you mean on Windows XP? Middle-click has a special meaning on Linux, and most Mac machines only have one mouse button.
Yes on Windows. I forgot it had a special meaning on unixes, sorry. I just thought of it when I tried to close an editor with a middle-click ( which is the way I close tabbed browsers in Firefox). I really think it would be a nice feature to have, it's a lot quicker to click anywhere on the tab to close an editor than to point and click on the cross icon: it doesn't require as much precision.
Changing Platform and OS to correspond with comment #1 and comment #2. I'd recommend against doing this, as it doesn't seem to be native behaviour on Windows XP, and seems to require special functionality for Windows-only. What does Firefox do on Linux then?
Firefox 0.8 on Linux does not seem to respond to middle-click on a tab.
... and neither does Firefox 0.9 on Linux.
This seems non-standard based on the comments following the original. There are however other options such as Ctrl+W from the keyboard.
*** Bug 71422 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 91841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #6) > This seems non-standard based on the comments following the original. I did not find any closeable tabs in bare Windows XP to determine whether that's "standard" or not. IMO, Eclipse should also support this useful feature (and offer a preference for those who don't like it). Let's follow the path of other successful "tabbed browsing" applications!
> > This seems non-standard based on the comments following the original. > > I did not find any closeable tabs in bare Windows XP to determine whether that's > "standard" or not. Now it has become standard even in IE7 (in addition to Firefox, Opera, ...).
I would also very much like to see this feature implemented for the Windows version of Eclipse, as I find myself automatically trying to middle-click close tabs in eclipse. I believe the feature is standard in a lot of programs with tabs, the Trillian chat program comes to mind, in addition to the already mentioned Firefox, IE7, and Opera web browsers. I have just discoverred there is actually already a plugin which does this, but I think it is something which deserves to be done natively within eclipse. For anyone that wants to get the plugin for this, it can be found here: http://www.hlsoft.com/clickclosestab_eclipse
Looks like this has been implemented for I20071127-0800.
(In reply to comment #12) > Looks like this has been implemented for I20071127-0800. Yes indeed. Btw, I didn't realize that Firefox (2.0) on Linux does not support middle-click-closing of tabs. It behaves strangely - some kind of paste operation to the URL field seems to be going on. If middle-click-closing of tabs in Eclipse bothers Linux people, we should discuss this again. About the Mac - yes, most Macs only have one mouse button, so I don't think this feature would hurt them. ;-) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 156792 ***
