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Plugins. script, and place the following in your vimrc. Pressing Alt-F12 opens a window listing the buffers, and you can press Enter on a buffer name to go to that buffer. Or, press F12 (next) or Shift-F12 (previous) to cycle through the buffers.
Close buffer named Name (as shown by :ls ). Assuming the default backslash leader key, you can also press \bd to close (delete) the buffer in the current window (same as :Bclose ).
%bdelete. The %bdelete command deletes (closes) all buffers. Since we can prefix a command with a range (e.g. :3,5bdelete will delete buffers 3 through 5), it is as if we are running :1,999bdelete except instead of 999 Vim automatically uses the largest buffer number.
Vim is a powerful code editor. So powerful that both Linux and Mac have it installed by default. But if you are using Windows as your operating system, you will need to install Vim separately. Fortunately, Microsoft makes it very easy to install Vim and get it running on your PC.
Can I fix a buffer so that the only way to remove it from vim window is closing it?
For instance, I'm using the NERDtree plugin, which displays the filesystem in a vim window. Sometimes I forget to change focus to other window before using the quickfix commands and the erroneus file ends up replacing the file tree. (Not to mention that NERDtree's window default width is only 31)
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What I'm trying to achieve with this question is to simulate Eclipse's notion of views and editors inside vim. In this terms, NERDTree (and other plugins destined to exclusively display information) would be a view while the other windows would be editors.
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