Reputation: 12110

How do I close all open tabs at once?

If I have 10 tabs opened, I have to close each one using ":q" separately.

How can I close them all at once?

Upvotes: 452

Answers (9)

Tobin Cavanaugh

Reputation: 36

I use the VSvim extension for Visual Studio 2019, if this is helpful for others:

:qa quits Visual Studio entirely
:tabo closes all tabs except the open one
:bd parse error
:tabclose / :tabc parse error
Tab commands like :tabn and :tabp do work.

Upvotes: 1

Valentin Vignal

Reputation: 8172

I'm using the VIM plugin in VSCode and I was looking for a way to close all the tabs open on the current window.

The commands :qa and :wqa didn't work because they closed all the tabs from all the windows.

The command :tabonly closed all the tabs from the current window except the current tab.

Because I'm usually only using 2 windows at the same time, the closer I managed to get to my need was to focus on the other window and run the command :

:on

(:only) it closes all the windows except the current one.

Upvotes: 0

Christian C. Salvadó

Reputation: 827198

I often use :tabo (:tabonly) to close all other tabs.

Upvotes: 244

user10146018

Reputation:

here is an Dark Side way of closing ALL VIM INSTANCES on Linux/Mac

:!killall vim -9

Do not use it. It does what you ask but probably not the best way but fun way

Upvotes: 1

Christopher

Reputation: 1851

You can use any of these Vim Ex commands to Exit Multiple Windows And Buffers:

:qa :qall

Exit Vim, unless there are some buffers which have been changed. (Use :bmod to go to the next modified buffer). When 'autowriteall' is set all changed buffers will be written, like :wqall.
:conf qa :confirm qall

Exit Vim. Bring up a prompt when some buffers have been changed. See :confirm.
:qa! :qall!

Exit Vim. Any changes to buffers are lost. Also see :cquit, it does the same but exits with a non-zero value.
:quita :quitall :quita! :quitall!

Same as :qall.
:wqa :wqall :xa :xall

Write all changed buffers and exit Vim. If there are buffers without a file name, which are readonly or which cannot be written for another reason, Vim will not quit.
:conf wqa :confirm wqall :conf xa :confirm xall

Write all changed buffers and exit Vim. Bring up a prompt when some buffers are readonly or cannot be written for another reason. See :confirm.
:wqa! :xa! :wqall! :xall!

Write all changed buffers, even the ones that are readonly, and exit Vim. If there are buffers without a file name or which cannot be written for another reason, Vim will not quit.