Middle click is expectable action for closing sub-windows in many applications. Recently middle mouse button started to use as fast closing action for tabs. IIRC first introduced this feature were Mozilla Firefox web-browser, but there are many apps you may see same behaviour. I didn't noticed any existing action by middle-click on sidebar in Geany.

Of course, it may be configurable because some people prefer to click twice (right-click + click on close button) but this is not fast enough for me, sometimes I have to close 10-20 files in a row. I think there are some people faced with this problem too. I'm talking about people who disabled tabs in preferences and uses sidebar only (middle-click works on tabs but not sidebar and those who disabled tabs have no way to close documents in a row).

Maybe my case is very special (I use Geany to open hundreds of files on tens of programming languages). If nobody wants it - it will be my own patch:) But I think having this disabled by default if prefs shouldn't hurt.

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:14:33 +1000 сообщение от Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com:

The middle click is a bad idea, the middle button has a defined use, paste, and re-purposing it for something else is bad.