Save all vim buffers to new directory
save, undelete, vi, vim
Solution
All buffers calls for `:bufdo`. With `%:t`, you get the current buffer's filename (without path). Read `:help filename-modifiers` for all of them; you can include subpaths, too. Ergo (to make copies in `/tmp/backup`):
:bufdo write /tmp/backups/%:t
Problem
I'd like to do a `:wa`, but save all buffers under a new path. I could to each buffer write them individually to a new path, but I'm looking to do this for all open buffers. I actually wouldn't care if all sub-paths or absolute paths were stripped, and everything was just flatly in one directory. I'm trying to save all open vim files after deleting the directory from the shell while `vim` was open.