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How do you quit all windows with a single command in Vim or vimdiff?

:q only quits out of the active window, so then a separate :q is needed to close each window.

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    Here's what I like to do - :only to show the final result of the merge, then ZZ to save and quit, since there is only one window open after :only command (or swap ZZ for however you like to quit a single window). Commented Jan 25, 2016 at 17:12

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:qa quits all open windows/buffers/splits/tabs
(aliases: :qall :quitall)

Vim documentation for :qa

For help on this command in Vim: :help :qa

:qa! will quit without giving an option to save if it's modified.
:wqa will write all changed buffers and then quit.
:wqa! will write all changed buffers, even readonly ones, and then quit.

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For those who don't know where to write :qa, first press ctrl+C.

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