GNU bug report logs - #56198
Request to delete window with mouse event

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: carlmarcos <at> tutanota.com

Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: carlmarcos--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of
 text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 56198 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, carlmarcos <at> tutanota.com
Subject: Re: bug#56198: Request to delete window with mouse event
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2022 22:40:38 +0530

[வெள்ளி ஜூன் 24, 2022] carlmarcos--- via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" wrote:

> I frequently split my windows,  I usually kill the buffer using the
> menu bar.  But this leaves me with the window open with some other
> buffer.  Would like to request some facility to delete a window
> (delete-window) using the mouse, as I frequently do for
> `kill-buffer'.  Perhaps the capability could be inserted in the window
> mode-line.  Where  one can usually turn off a minor-mode with the
> mouse.

I think mouse-3 (i.e., Right Click) on the mode-line does what you want?
However, this does not kill the buffer that shown in the window though
but should be easy enough to change (search for "mouse-delete-window" in
mouse.el).
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