window delete_kill

Synopsis

/window [<window>] delete_kill

Description

Close the selected window's secondary screen and then attempt to destroy the selected window. Other windows on that screen become hidden. Subsequent window operations target the resulting current window. With no selector, use the current window.

This combines delete with window destruction, allowing the last window on a secondary screen to be removed after the screen closes. Unlike kill, this handler does not check killable. Deletion discards the selected window's buffers and settings; saved log files remain on disk.

The main screen and the invisible screen cannot be closed. A screen-close refusal does not stop the subsequent window-deletion attempt, which is still subject to the ordinary visible-window safety restriction. Do not use this as a harmless screen-close test.

There are no operation arguments. /window -delete_kill does nothing.

Examples

/window 3 delete_kill

Source references

windowcmd_delete_kill, unlink_window, and delete_window_contents in source/window.c; kill_screen in source/screen.c.