These videos are fantastic, I really appreciate the time and effort you’ve gone to here, learning VIM is hard when just reading from a list of commands off the screen I always would pick a couple, use them, and then forget the next day. Watching this I think you could probably teach anything, and I can finally learn how to VIM properly!
I’d like to know what you screen cast with? I use Jing a lot but it’s nothing compared to what you use! Also do you think it’s possible to attach example files for us to practice VIM on? I’m more of a sys admin and not a programmer, so it’s important for me to know VIM but I don’t have so many files lying around all in different code.

Sorry about the long wait on the reply – I’ve been without internet access for a month (stupid phone company problem) but I’ve managed to log in elsewhere :)

There’s no easy way to do this, that I know of but there may be a plugin that can do it… Rather than waste my time looking, I just wrote up this little script instead. It was just a quick script but it should suffice for what you need. Drop it in your vimrc, either restart Vim or reload the vimrc and then you can run :DelBufferPat *.txt.

function! DelBufferByPattern(pattern)
redir => knownbuffers
silent ls
redir END
let nums = []
let pat = a:pattern
if pat[0] == '*'
let pat = '.' . a:pattern
endif
for buf in split(knownbuffers, '\n')
if buf =~ '"[^"]*' . pat. '[^"]*"'
let bufnum = substitute(buf, '\s*\(\d\+\).*$', '\1', '')
call add(nums, bufnum)
endif
endfor
if len(nums) == 0
echoerr "No buffers match " . a:pattern
else
let command = ":bd " . join(nums, ' ')
execute command
endif
endfunction

command! -nargs=1 DelBufferPat call DelBufferByPattern("<args>")

Sorry about the lousy formatting on that, but you can blame Wordpress :)

I got a question: is it possible to delete multiple buffers by evaluting an expression? e.g :bd *txt

you make a emacs user wanna switch back to vim :P

keep the videos coming