All open listers to tabs and back

is there a way to have all open listers be made in to tabs and then back to listers again thanks

so you end up with
one lister

You can use Close ALLLISTERS=collapse to turn all other open listers into tabs in the current lister.

Or Close ALLLISTERS=collapse,unique to do this same but avoid opening duplicate tabs, if the same folder is open in multiple places.

There isn't a way to go back into listers, since where each tab came from is not remembered. But you could save a layout snapshotting all the open listers before running the command to do something similar. (Or, if every window only had one tab before, a script could split every folder tab into a separate window.)

If the aim is just to get things out of the way until later, using a layout to snapshot what is open, and then simply closing everything, may be a better way than turning everything into tabs.