Vim: Close All Buffers But This One

Question

How can I close all buffers in Vim except the one I am currently editing?

Answer 1

I like 1,100bd (suggested by juananruiz) which seems to work for me.

I added a quit! to my mapping to give me

nnoremap <leader>bd :1,100bd<CR>
nnoremap <leader>bdq :1,100bd<CR>:q!<CR>

This kills all the buffers and shuts down Vim, which is what I was looking for mostly.

Answer 2

I was able to do this pretty easily like this:

:%bd|e#

Answer 3

If you don´t care the current one, is more simple to do something like (no script needing):

1,100bd

Answer 4

Building on juananruiz's answer.

Make a small change in the buffer you want to keep, then

:1,1000bd

The command bd (buffer delete) will not delete any buffers with unsaved changes. This way you can keep the current (changed) file in the buffer list.

Edit: Please notice that this will also delete your NERDTreeBuffer. You can get it back with :NERDTree

Answer 5

You could use this script from vim.org:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1071

Just put it to your .vim/plugin directory and then use :BufOnly command to close all buffers but the active one. You could also map it elsewhere you like in your .vimrc.

Source on Github (via vim-scripts mirror): https://github.com/vim-scripts/BufOnly.vim/blob/master/plugin/BufOnly.vim

Answer 6

Here's what I do. So I like to keep my cursor position after removing all buffers and most of the solutions above just ignores this fact. I also think remapping the command is better than typing it so Here I use <leader>bd to remove all buffers and jump back to my original cursor position.

noremap <leader>bd :%bd\|e#\|bd#<cr>\|'"

%bd = delete all buffers.

e# = open the last buffer for editing (Which Is the buffer I'm working on).

bd# to delete the [No Name] buffer that gets created when you use %bd.

The pipe in between just does one command after another. You've gotta escape it though using \|

'" = keep my cursor position.