How do I close a single buffer (out of many) in Vim?

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Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 picture Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 · Aug 13, 2009 · Viewed 221.9k times · Source

I open several files in Vim by, for example, running

vim a/*.php

which opens 23 files.

I then make my edit and run the following twice

:q

which closes all my buffers.

How can you close only one buffer in Vim?

Answer

hhh picture hhh · Sep 4, 2009

A word of caution: "the w in bw does not stand for write but for wipeout!"

More from manuals:

:bd

Unload buffer [N] (default: current buffer) and delete it from the buffer list. If the buffer was changed, this fails, unless when [!] is specified, in which case changes are lost. The file remains unaffected.

If you know what you're doing, you can also use :bw

:bw

Like |:bdelete|, but really delete the buffer.

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