How do I close all open tabs at once?
VimViShortcutVim Problem Overview
If I have 10 tabs opened, I have to close each one using ":q" separately.
How can I close them all at once?
Vim Solutions
Solution 1 - Vim
Shortest/simplest/fastest way would be:
:qa
To save work in all tabs and quit:
:wqa
Solution 2 - Vim
I often use :tabo (:tabonly) to close all other tabs.
Solution 3 - Vim
That can be done with the following command (in normal or escape mode): > > :tabdo :q >
"tabdo" apparently executes the command for all the open tabs.
Solution 4 - Vim
Adding to what fuentesjr said:
:qa!
Will force quit all tabs, if you don't care about saving.
Solution 5 - Vim
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.
To read about these in Vim, type the following Ex command
:help window-exit
Solution 6 - Vim
:qall
This closes all tabs and open buffers.
Solution 7 - Vim
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
Solution 8 - Vim
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.