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Originally Posted by Valloric
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.
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Valloric, I may not have been clear in my earlier suggestion.
Going back to the example you used, of office suites with which almost everyone is familiar—and which have universally interchangeable shortcuts that quite a few people use as second nature!—here are the menu options and shortcuts to which I am accustomed in OpenOffice Writer, on a
Windows machine (see screenshot attachment).
That said, Sigil is your program... and an excellent tool. If you choose to implement a few additional shortcuts and menu items, a lot of us will be happy. If you don't, none of us will suffer.
- M.