How do I close all windows only in the current tab of vim

Question

I know that :qa closes all the buffers and windows and exits vim. It's also clear that I could use :q to quit a single window/split in a given tab. But consider the case where I have three windows in the current tab and a bunch of adjacent open tabs as well. I want to close the three windows in the current tab but not quit vim or the other adjacent tabs.

How do I do it? I went through the vim help file, but there doesn't seem to a direct option. I imagine it's possible to get such functionality using vimscript, but I want to be sure before drawing the conclusion that it's the only option.

If vim doesn't support it directly and someone has been awesome enough to write a plugin for it, I would love to know about it.

Answer 1

Do you mean you want to close the current tab page? Then there's the :tabclose command for that.

Answer 2

I also found out this command works. The help page at help tabpage was quite useful.

:tabc

Like @glts pointed out in a comment, I needed to get my vim terminology in order before I could find an answer.