emacselisp

Close all buffers besides the current one in Emacs

How do I close all but the current buffer in Emacs? Similar to "Close other tabs" feature in modern web browsers?

Solution

  • From EmacsWiki: Killing Buffers:

    (defun kill-other-buffers ()
    "Kill all other buffers."
    (interactive)
    (mapc 'kill-buffer 
          (delq (current-buffer) 
                (remove-if-not 'buffer-file-name (buffer-list)))))

    Edit: updated with feedback from Gilles