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warren_scott

Add "Close All" files option

Status: New

If you have opened a bunch of sequence files (TS2025 sequence editor), closing all of them is frustrating.

you can click on the "x" for each sequence file.  With the new placement of the "x" on the tab rather than docked far right in the UI you need to move your mouse for every file that you close.  

you can file >> close myfilename.seq for each file (this takes a long time)

you can ctrl+w a whole bunch of times (great if you remember all your hotkeys)

you can right click on a sequence file and choose "close all but this one" and then close "this one" (cool trick, but you need to remember it)

you can go to Window >> close all windows. (this is great, but not a place that makes sense based on other software UIs)

 

I propose adding File >> Close All menu entry.  This would essentially do what Window >> close all windows selection does, except that it is in the location that people will look for it based on experience with other software packages.  This way TS behaves more like what we expect from other software packages.  My experience makes me look for "close all" in the file >> menu somewhere next to the file >> close this file entry.

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