Description
Describe the request
Allow the user to close the tabs for non-code sketch files.
Describe the current behavior
When a sketch is opened in the Arduino IDE, all source files in the root of the sketch folder are opened in editor tabs.
All these source files are compiled into a single program. Since this fact may not be apparent to users who are accustomed to single file sketches and thus think of the .ino file as the sketch unit rather than the entire folder, a control for closing them is intentionally omitted from the primary UI.
It is also possible to open other source files, either via the "Go to Definition" feature or the "Sketchbook" view for those files under the src subfolder of the sketch. In this case, the editor tabs are closeable since these files do not represent the primary user components of the sketch program.
The ability to open supplemental non-code files (Markdown, AsciiDoc, JSON) in the editor was added in Arduino IDE 2.x. The closability of these files is currently based on location just the same as the code files. However, the reason for preventing closure of the primary code files does not really apply to these supplemental files since they are not part of the program.
🙁 Users may be frustrated by being unable to close editor tabs for supplemental files.
Arduino IDE version
2.0.0-snapshot-4e590ab
Operating system
Windows
Operating system version
10
Additional context
Originally reported at https://forum.arduino.cc/t/arduino-2-0-0-mac-ugh-why-so-backwards/1033549
Issue checklist
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