Re: tramp 2.1.11 completion list force refresh

[Pete Forman]

At 2007-11-15 07:23 +0100, Michael Albinus wrote:
> "Thomas S. Chin" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I think it would be nice if there was a keystroke that could force a
> > flush of the cache for that particular directory so a user can
> > explicitly notify tramp that they want it to refresh the contents.
>
> In dired, you can hit "g" (revert-buffer) for rereading directory contents.

I find it a bit annoying to have to go via dired to refresh a directory
when I know that the remote files have changed through some external
process.

Would it be possible to check the previous key strokes or function call?
Two failed completions in a row points to a stale cache.  Pressing tab
or whatever a second time would refresh the cache.

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