Question

Is there a way in vim to close all files (buffers, let’s not get into that) from some directory and its subdirectories?

Answer 1

Put the following into your .vimrc or in some custom file inside vim plugin folder.

function! s:close_buffers(name_regexp)     for buffer_number in range(1, bufnr('$'))         if !buflisted(buffer_number)             continue         endif          let name = fnamemodify(bufname( buffer_number ), ':p')         if name =~ a:name_regexp             exec 'bdelete '.buffer_number         endif     endfor endfunction  command! -nargs=1 CloseBuffers call s:close_buffers(<f-args>) 

Use commands like

:CloseBuffers include :CloseBuffers in.*e 

to close buffers which name matches passed regexp.

That means that to close all files from the certain folder you can use

:CloseBuffers workspace/cpp :CloseBuffers /home/my/project 

To close all the files from the current dir and all subdirs

:exec 'CloseBuffers '.getcwd()