How to make vi redraw screen? How to make vi redraw screen? git git

How to make vi redraw screen?


To force a screen refresh

:redraw!


I've been using ctrl+L for such purposes for 35 years now, what's wrong with it?


In Vi both of these are redraw:

  • ^R ( does not work with VT100 type terminals )
  • ^L ( does not work with Televideo terminals )

From http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cslab/vi.html#A1.4 (dead link; see archive)

As noted in the comments Vim now uses ^R for redo and ^L alone for redraw.