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When you have multi windows in full screen mode (created multi windows in Menu->Window->New Window), if you want to close one of the window without quitting Eclipse, you have to first quit the window's full screen mode, then press the close button of the window to close it. However, other programs (like Microsoft Word or OS X Finder), which have multi windows can use the system common shortcut Command+w to close a single window without quitting the full screen mode or the whole program. Eclipse can't, as eclipse overrides the command+w shortcut to close a tab in Editor and does not implements what Command+w should do when there is no editor tabs. The google's browser, Google Chrome also use Command+w to close a tab, however, Chrome will close the Window when the tab is the last tab. I know an IDE is different from a browser. However, I think there should be a quick way to close a Window when it is in full screen mode without quit the Eclipse when there is more than one window. I guess the best way is to add a "Close Window" and a "Close All Other Windows" menu-items in Window menu as what you did for files in File menu, then people like me can assign them a shortcut. If I am wrong and there is already a way to do that, please tells me. Thank you.
something like a Close Window command. PW
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