On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 10:59:41AM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
Is there a way to delete all buffers matching a certain pattern?
For example, suppose I just read in all files in a directory and this is
my buffer list:
1 a.txt
2 b.txt
3 1.exe
4 2.exe
5 c.txt
6 3.exe
7 d.txt
I want to do
:bufdo if bufname(%)=~?'.exe$' | bdel | endif
I think you want to escape the dot:
:bufdo if bufname(%) =~? '\.exe$' | bdel | endif
Oh, so correct. My error. It's one of those subtle things that
works just fine until it bites you in the bum when one has file
Is there a way to delete all buffers matching a certain pattern?
For example, suppose I just read in all files in a directory and this is
my buffer list:
1 a.txt
2 b.txt
3 1.exe
4 2.exe
5 c.txt
6 3.exe
7 d.txt
I want to do something like :bdelete *.exe.
I don't want to manually enumerate all
Is there a way to delete all buffers matching a certain pattern?
For example, suppose I just read in all files in a directory and this is
my buffer list:
1 a.txt
2 b.txt
3 1.exe
4 2.exe
5 c.txt
6 3.exe
7 d.txt
I want to do something like :bdelete *.exe.
The following seems to do the trick
