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

On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:10:32 PM UTC-6, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-02-26 10:53, Andy Richer wrote:
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> > I opened a report file that is changed once I correct some code and
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> > re-generate report.
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> > Is there a way that I can do "refresh" or "reload" without quit the
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> > re-open the file to see updated contents?
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> Depends on what behavior you want, and whether you want to preserve
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> any changes you made in the first version of the output. To re-read
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> the file from disk, you can use
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> :e
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> (note: no filename) If you've made changes in the current buffer,
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> you can abandon those with
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> :e!
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>

Note, this will destroy undo history, unless you have 'undofile' set, and 'undoreload' is a number larger than the number of lines in your file.

If 'undofile' and 'undoreload' are set properly, you can actually undo reading in the file if it abandoned your unsaved changes.

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