Re: disable "window close button (X)"

IMHO, autohotkey or autoti may help you here. As Tony said, GUI is not the business of gVim and you'd better handle it via other (native) Win32 GUI tools.

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin R. Haskell <vim@benizi.com> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, warem wrote:

hi,

i am using gvim in M$. i would like to know if it is possible to disable "window close button (X)" on the top right corner in gvim. my purpose is to prevent closing vim accidentally by pressing button X.

Have you tried pressing the button?

In Win7 (only thing I have access to ATM), with a buffer with unsaved changes, if you click on the 'X' to close, you should get a dialog box asking "Save changes to [buffer name]?" with the options 'Yes' (= save changes and quit), 'No' (= discard changes and quit), and 'Cancel' (= don't quit, changes remain).

So, GVim itself already has some protection.

As Tony stated, anything else would be up to the O/S.  Or, an external O/S-specific tool.  An example for Windows would be to use AutoHotkey¹.

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Best,
Ben

¹: "grey out" the close button script (didn't work for me in Win7, should work pre-Vista?):
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=62506#62506

²: This crazy script might be what you want:
http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/NoClose/NoClose.ahk

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