Cancel split window in Vim
Solution 1:
Press Control+w, then hit q to close each window at a time.
Update: Also consider eckes answer which may be more useful to you, involving :on
(read below) if you don't want to do it one window at a time.
Solution 2:
To close all splits, I usually place the cursor in the window that shall be the on-ly visible one and then do :on
which makes the current window the on-ly visible window. Nice mnemonic to remember.
Edit: :help :on
showed me that these commands are the same:
:on
:only
- CTRL-w CTRL-o
- And yes, also CTRL-W o has the same effect (as Nathan answered).
Each of these four closes all windows except the active one.