Ctrl+W for close Tabs

Can we get Ctrl+W to close tabs within blueprints? I’m still using 4.4 sorry so apologies if this has already been added.

Thanks!

Hi Pointyman,

This still isn’t in 4.5.1 but it is a Feature Request in our tracking software. It has recently moved up in priority and our developers will be looking into it.

Cheers,

TJ

Just wanted to see if there were any updates on this. Would be a great add.

Hi Technical Designer,

There is currently a keybinding for this, it’s ‘Ctrl+F4’. The above feature request has been changed to make this keybinding listed somewhere in the editor.

Cheers,

TJ

Much appreciated

Sorry, but this is very poorly implemented, at least as of 4.23 (granted, I’m using an old version). The keyboard shortcuts settings have two options for closing tabs, which I don’t understand:

To me a tab is a tab, in a browser, a program or anything else. In Unreal almost everything can be made into a tab, which is great. But at least in macOS, if you press Cmd+W (something that if you’ve been working with macOS for years it’s a shortcut you probably press over a hundred times a day).

So when I press Cmd+W in the editor, no matter how many tabs are open, it closes the whole window with all the tabs, and a second later, the whole program. So I wouldn’t call that a “Minor tab” like it says on the settings. Now, the “Major tab” setting, the one that is preset to Cmd+F4, is the one that closes just the current tab. But as anyone who has worked on Macs for the last ten years or more can tell you, Apple keyboards need to either be set to Function keys all the time, or they work as keys for other things like volume and launchpad, so to do a Cmd+F4, you would need to press Command while pressing the Fn and the F4 keys. Not exactly quick and easy as Cmd+W.

So let’s say I want to change the Major tab shortcut to Cmd+W. I sure can, but the moment I click on the new binding field and press Cmd+W, again it closes everything. The next time I open the editor and go to the shortcuts settings, I see Cmd+W as the “Close major tab” shortcut, but if I press it, it doesn’t behave like Cmd+F4. It closes everything else again.

So the closest you can get is set the close major tab option to Cmd+2, which closes the current tab only. So it’s not a bad solution, but it would be better if Cmd+W behaved like any other macOS program and closed just the current tab.