Deleting a buffer

If you like to keep your buffer list nice and tidy, you can use the :bd command to delete a buffer from the buffer list. :bd by itself will get rid of the current buffer, but just like the :b command, you can also specify a buffer number or a file path.

And don’t worry — if you try to delete a buffer that has unsaved changes, Vim will stop you from proceeding.

Give it a go. In the editor, open all of the text files in the current directory with :args *.txt. Then, try deleting some of the loaded buffers with :bd.