How do I close all buffers that aren't shown in a window in vim?

Question

I have a horde of buffers open in vim, with only a few of them open in split windows or on other tabs. Is there a way to close all but the ones that are currently visible i

Answer 1

Yet another take on this. Using the example given in the Vim help for tabpagebuflist() to get a list of the buffers that appear in a tab or window. I have the below in my .vimrc

function! DeleteInactiveBufs()
    "From tabpagebuflist() help, get a list of all buffers in all tabs
    let tablist = []
    for i in range(tabpagenr('$'))
        call extend(tablist, tabpagebuflist(i + 1))
    endfor

    "Below originally inspired by Hara Krishna Dara and Keith Roberts
    "http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vim/message/56425
    let nWipeouts = 0
    for i in range(1, bufnr('$'))
        if bufexists(i) && !getbufvar(i,"&mod") && index(tablist, i) == -1
        "bufno exists AND isn't modified AND isn't in the list of buffers open in windows and tabs
            silent exec 'bwipeout' i
            let nWipeouts = nWipeouts + 1
        endif
    endfor
    echomsg nWipeouts . ' buffer(s) wiped out'
endfunction
command! Bdi :call DeleteInactiveBufs()