Friday, February 13, 2015

Re: :q does not close buffers

On Thursday, February 12, 2015 at 3:58:16 PM UTC-6, ddjones wrote:
> the way I actually figured out what was going on was that I
> was unable to delete a file I'd previously edited because Vim still had it
> open even though I'd quit the file

Vim doesn't keep files locked while it is editing them anyway. You can delete files out from under Vim even while the file is open in an active window, with modifications.

So something else is preventing you from deleting the file.

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