On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 5:18 AM 'Olivia smith 444' via vim_dev <
vim_dev@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> In Firefox and other applications, you can close a tab by pressing down
> (clicking) the scroll wheel (or middle button) of a mouse. (Pressing the
> left and right mouse keys on a laptop achieves the same effect.)
>
> Could gvim do the same?
>
IIRC, someone asked a very simple question at GitHub, and I gave it a
comment that it's not technically hard to implement the feature.
Strangely, I can't find the issue and am unable to quote it.
In fact, the feature can be implemented with a following patch: of a naive
approach
diff --git a/src/gui_gtk_x11.c b/src/gui_gtk_x11.c
index 898e2af5f..bf729b9b2 100644
--- a/src/gui_gtk_x11.c
+++ b/src/gui_gtk_x11.c
@@ -3464,6 +3464,40 @@ gui_mch_showing_tabline(void)
&&
gtk_notebook_get_show_tabs(GTK_NOTEBOOK(gui.tabline));
}
+/*
+ * A callback for the event box under a tabline label to receive the
+ * button-press-event signal.
+ */
+ static gboolean
+tabline_event_box_button_press_cb(GtkWidget *widget,
+ GdkEvent *event,
+ gpointer user_data UNUSED)
+{
+#define LOC_BUFSIZ 16
+ const GdkEventButton *button_event = (GdkEventButton *)event;
+
+ if (button_event->button == 2 && button_event->state == 0)
+ {
+ gint tab_num;
+
+ tab_num = GPOINTER_TO_INT(g_object_get_data(G_OBJECT(widget),
"tab_num"));
+ if (tab_num != 0)
+ {
+ char buf[LOC_BUFSIZ];
+
+ vim_snprintf(buf, LOC_BUFSIZ, "tabclose %d", tab_num);
+ do_cmdline_cmd((char_u *)buf);
+
+ gtk_notebook_remove_page(GTK_NOTEBOOK(gui.tabline), tab_num -
1);
+ gui_update_tabline();
+
+ return TRUE; /* to stop propagating the event further */
+ }
+ }
+ return FALSE; /* to propagate the event further */
+#undef LOC_BUfSIZ
+}
+
/*
* Update the labels of the tabline.
*/
@@ -3479,6 +3513,7 @@ gui_mch_update_tabline(void)
int curtabidx = 0;
char_u *labeltext;
+
if (gui.tabline == NULL)
return;
@@ -3540,6 +3575,10 @@ gui_mch_update_tabline(void)
(const char *)labeltext, NULL);
# endif
CONVERT_TO_UTF8_FREE(labeltext);
+
+ /* Make the event box receive the button-press-event signal */
+ g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(event_box), "button-press-event",
+ G_CALLBACK(tabline_event_box_button_press_cb),
NULL);
}
/* Remove any old labels. */
Then, once this patch is included, how should we do with the rest of the
shortcuts of
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mouse-shortcuts-perform-common-tasks ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Olivia
>
>
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