Re: How to refresh (reload) an opened file?

On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 7:53:00 AM UTC+13, andy richer wrote:

> Is there a way that I can do "refresh" or "reload" without quit the re-open the file to see updated contents?

The 'autoread' option does this. This works well in gvim because there is an implicit
:checktime
when gvim regains the input focus. See :help timestamp.

If you want a vim in a terminal to refresh, or gvim without getting the input focus, one can use the client-server stuff to tell vim to check if the file has changed. See :help client-server.

Regards, John Little

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