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:
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.
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