Vim tip: reload your vimrc

Post by Nico Brailovsky @ 2015-06-18 | Permalink | 2 comments | Leave a comment

If you're changing your vimrc, it can get boring to close and restart it only to see the changes applied. Want something quicker? You can ":so %". So stands for source, so you'll just be telling vim "include this file". % happens to be the path to the current file. If you're not editing your .vimrc but for some reason you still want to reload it, just use "so ~/.vimrc" instead.

In reply to this post, Anonymous commented @ 2015-06-21T14:30:22.000+02:00:

augroup MyAutoCmd
 " Clear autocmds for this group
 autocmd!
" Automatically load vimrc when it is saved
autocmd bufwritepost $MYVIMRC source $MYVIMRC
augroup end

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In reply to this post, nico commented @ 2015-06-22T09:49:37.000+02:00:

Great tip, thanks Anon!

Original published here.