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Originally Posted by Vintage Season
In fact, renaming that function to "New/Close" would be a simple change, and since it effectively serves the same purpose, doing so might eliminate further confusion on this front.
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"New/Close"? Sorry, but not. As a new user, the first thing that would pop into my mind when seeing that would be "WTF is this?".
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Originally Posted by pietvo
On Mac OS X it does have a Close menu item in the File menu. And it is mapped to Cmd-W. This is normal on Mac OS X.
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I knew someone would bring this up... Mac OS is a special beast. On Windows/Linux, it's customary to start the same application several times with different data. On Mac, not so much. A GUI app is expected to provide several top-level windows for editing multiple documents. So Sigil does that too. I deeply dislike it, but true SDI is not something Mac users are accustomed too. Without it, it was impossible to edit multiple epub documents at the same time on Macs.
Implementing that also meant remapping "Exit" to "Close", and using the appropriate shortcut.
On Windows/Linux, you just start several instances of Sigil. This is the preferred and HIG-compliant way of doing "multiple main windows" on those platforms.