Re: Closing completed files when editing many

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 05:20:06AM +0000, James Haggerty wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One of the things I usually do with editors is go through a number of
> files making related edits. e.g.
> 
>     vile a.c b.c c.c
> 
> I would have assumed the natural way to do this in vile would be to
> remove the current buffer when I've finished with it, but there appears

vi's 

:n

walks through to the "next" buffer.  The "autobuffer" mode (see help)
controls the order in which "next" will go.

> to be no default key binding for this. I'd have to either use * and ^X-k,
> or use :ki and name the buffer/file. Is this correct? This makes me
> think I'm approaching the problem in the wrong way for vile.

you could do

        :ki *.c

or (in the buffer list), use a repeat-count with ^X-k, e.g., putting the
cursor on the "0",  do 2 ^X k

      Size    Buffer name          Contents
      ------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------------
   0# 811     a.c                  ./a.c
   1  811     b.c                  ./b.c
   2  968     mutt-prl-debianold-6 
/var/tmp/mutt-prl-debianold-64-1001-4271-12414928227669892054
   3  811     c.c                  ./c.c
             Current dir:         /tmp

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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