Spacemacs: kill buffer and kill window in one command?

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Is there a spacemacs command that both closes the window and kills the buffer? In other words, the equivalent of Vim's :q?

There is `SPC q Q` for (kill-emacs) - which I guess is the equivalent of :q? If you want an explicit kill buffer kill window command, why don't you write it and add to your `spacemacs-user-config`? — Daniel, Nov 26 '16 at 08:20
@dangom In Vim `:q` closes the current window only, it only exits Vim if you are down to your last window. — Omar, Aug 14 '18 at 19:09

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '16 at 15:43

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spacemacs binding for kill-buffer-and-window:

Cx,4,0

answered Dec 11 '16 at 15:43

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score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '18 at 18:38

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Spacemacs has recently added two shortcuts for kill-buffer-and-window: SPC b x and SPC w x.

answered Aug 13 '18 at 18:38

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For others that like me are wondering about this, this is not only in Spacemacs. It is added to Emacs itself with vanilla Emacs default binding of `C-x 4 0`. It can be found in `window.el`. – Mehrad Mahmoudian Jan 21 '23 at 11:15

score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 27 '16 at 06:33

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Use kill-buffer-and-window to close a buffer and its window. But this will keep emacs running. If you also want to kill emacs (the equivalent of :q) then try evil-quit-all if you're using evil, and save-buffers-kill-terminal for standard emacs quit.

answered Nov 27 '16 at 06:33

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 10 '19 at 10:38

In addition to the above answers, in particular the one by sid-kap; for people not on the development branch, i.e. people using the current stable release, the command kill-buffer-and-window is bound to SPC u SPC w d as described (currently) in the key bindings section of the documentation.

Spacemacs: kill buffer and kill window in one command?

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