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Reload MRU without reopening editor

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua

Research direction

Start by locating how dashboard-nvim reads Neovim's MRU/oldfiles list and how the dashboard is refreshed after opening. Determine whether an on-demand or automatic refresh is feasible; done means the recent-files list updates without reopening the editor.

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Description

Reload MRU (oldfiles) without reopening editor.
List of recent files is not refreshed until I reopen editor.

Add an option/function to refresh MRU on demand or automatically
Adding a function to refresh/reload oldfiles would solve this.

Dominant language
Lua
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