I followed yiyus suggestion and ended up using ".go" as an alias for Get. I expect it's going to work nicely.

the change is trivial:

diff --git a/src/cmd/acme/exec.c b/src/cmd/acme/exec.c

index 6fe423a..5c55e21 100644

--- a/src/cmd/acme/exec.c

+++ b/src/cmd/acme/exec.c

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static Rune LEdit[] = { 'E', 'd', 'i', 't', 0 };

static Rune LExit[] = { 'E', 'x', 'i', 't', 0 };

static Rune LFont[] = { 'F', 'o', 'n', 't', 0 };

static Rune LGet[] = { 'G', 'e', 't', 0 };

+static Rune LRefreshGo[] = { '.', 'g', 'o', 0 };

static Rune LID[] = { 'I', 'D', 0 };

static Rune LIncl[] = { 'I', 'n', 'c', 'l', 0 };

static Rune LIndent[] = { 'I', 'n', 'd', 'e', 'n', 't', 0 };

@@ -106,6 +107,7 @@ Exectab exectab[] = {

{ LExit, xexit, FALSE, XXX, XXX },

{ LFont, fontx, FALSE, XXX, XXX },

{ LGet, get, FALSE, TRUE, XXX },

+ { LRefreshGo, get, FALSE, TRUE, XXX },

{ LID, id, FALSE, XXX, XXX },

{ LIncl, incl, FALSE, XXX, XXX },

{ LIndent, indent, FALSE, XXX, XXX },

On 9 April 2015 at 15:28, Mathieu Lonjaret <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:

ah, good idea. thanks!

On 9 April 2015 at 10:02, yy <yiyu.jgl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 March 2015 at 17:02, Mathieu Lonjaret <mathieu.lonjaret@gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, I find it a bit tedious that I have to write (or paste)
>> myself the Get tag for each of the wins I want to refresh. To the
>> point that I'm thinking of hardcoding the Get tag as one of the
>> "permanent" tags for a win.
>
> One easy solution is to use as command something you already have in
> the tag bar. I have used '|' as Edit (I think the patch is my contrib,
> but I'm not sure), you may use it as Get. Or, since it looks like we
> are talking about go files, you could use 'g' or 'o', which will
> always be there.
>
> It is not ideal, but it is something you can do in 5 minutes.
>
>
> --
> - yiyus || JGL .
>