There are times when the contents of your screen can become garbled. For example, if mail arrives, a message may be placed on the screen. Ved has no way to know about events like this.
You may also need to force a refresh if you resize your terminal, and the resize does not send a SIGWINCH signal back to Ved. Currently only Xterms are know to send the proper signal.
This will force the updating of all the windows currently available. In order, the function:
This does take a bit of time (well, not on a fast machine!), and can cause ``flashing'' on the screen.
After a terminal resize you will need to press a key to get the display to refresh. This is a ``feature'' of ncurses.