Cancel split window in Vim

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I have split my windows horizontally  Now how can I return to normal mode  i e  no split window just one window without cancelling all of my open windows  I have 5 and do not want to  quit   just want to get out of split window

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Two alternatives for closing the current window are ZZ and ZQ  which will  respectively  save and not save changes to the displayed buffer

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to close all windows but the current one use   CTRL w  o  That is  first CTRL w and then o

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Press Control w  then hit q to close each window at a time   Update  Also consider eckes answer which may be more useful to you  involving  on   read below  if you don t want to do it one window at a time

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From  help opening-window  search for  Closing a window  -  Closing a window     q uit  close the current window and buffer  If it is the last window it will also exit vim  bd elete  unload the current buffer and close the current window  qa all  or  quita ll  will close all buffers and windows and exit vim   qa  to force without saving changes   clo se  close the current window but keep the buffer open  If there is only one window this command fails  hid e  hide the buffer in the current window  Read more at  help hidden   on ly  close all other windows but leave all buffers open

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I found that ctrl   w to the window you want to close  then just do  q  This works for me

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To close all splits  I usually place the cursor in the window that shall be the on-ly visible one and then do  on which makes the current window the on-ly visible window  Nice mnemonic to remember      Edit   help  on showed me that these commands are the same     on  only CTRL-w CTRL-o And yes  also CTRL-W o has the same effect  as Nathan answered     Each of these four closes all windows except the active one

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I understand you intention well  I use buffers exclusively too  and occasionally do split if needed   below is excerpt of my  vimrc    disable macro  since not used in 90   use cases map q  lt Nop gt    q   close hide current window  or quit vim if no other window nnoremap q  if winnr       gt  1   hide  else  silent  exec  q   endif lt CR gt    qo  close all other window    --  o  stands for  only  nnoremap qo  only lt CR gt  set hidden set timeout set timeoutlen 200     let vim wait less for your typing    Which fits my workflow quite well     If q was pressed         hide current window if multiple window open  else try to quit vim          if qo was pressed           close all other window  no effect if only one window       Of course  you can wrap that messy part into a function  eg  func  Hide cur window or quit vim       if winnr       gt  1         hide     else         silent  exec  q      endif endfunc nnoremap q  call Hide cur window or quit vim   lt CR gt    Sidenote  I remap q  since I do not use macro for editing  instead use  s   g   v  and external text processing command if needed  eg         awk  some programm   or use  norm  normal-command-here

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Okay I just detached and reattach to the screen session and I am back to normal screen I wanted

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Just like the others said before the way to do this is to press ctrl w and then o  This will  maximize  the current window  while closing the others  If you d like to be able to  unmaximize  it  there s a plugin called ZoomWin for that  Otherwise you d have to recreate the window setup from scratch

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The command  hide will hide the currently focused window   I think this is the functionality you are looking for   In order to navigate between windows type Ctrl w followed by a navigation key  h j k l  or arrow keys   For more information run  help window and  help hide in vim

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