VIM ctrlp.vim plugin: how to rescan files?

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ko1Rn picture ko1Rn · Dec 29, 2011 · Viewed 32k times · Source

I have come across the awesome ctrlp.vim plugin. It is a good alternative to the Command-T plugin which I have used before. What I did not like about Command-T is that it would take about 20-30 seconds to rescan files when it is invoked for the first time after starting vim.

CtrlP works a lot faster but it does not seem to automatically rescan for newly created files. How should I trigger a rescan manually?

Thanks!

Answer

Jeet picture Jeet · Dec 29, 2011

From the documentation:

<F5>
  - Refresh the match window and purge the cache for the current directory.
  - Remove deleted files from MRU list.

This assumes you're in ctrl-p mode already. Note that you can hit F5 in the middle of a query, i.e., you can type a few characters, find it's not matching a recently updated file, and hit F5 to refresh right then. It will automatically show you the match if the file was just added to the ctrl-p cache.

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