Intellij IDEA: Pinned tabs, close will close. How to disable?

Question

I have a hotkey for closing tabs, CTRL + W but it closes even pinned tabs.

So does the [X] on the tabs.

And so does the right click -> close tab.

Is this a bug?

It didn't use to be like this.

I am on intellij 13

Answer 1

Pinning a tab in IntelliJ simply means it will not automatically close when you have exceeded the maximum number of allowed open tabs (the value of which you can edit, but is 10 by default). It has nothing to do with your own actions to close it (except for the Close All but Pinned option in the right-click context menu on tabs).