How to make vi redraw screen?

Question

When I use

git commit --amend

It will enter into a vi window to let me input comments for commit, the problem is the vi windows will show

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

To force a screen refresh

:redraw!

Answer 3

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