Nabble - Vim - General - Automatically reload file on change - The Diigo Meta page

• 05 Nov 08
  

  Riyaz Mohammed Ibrahim

  vim

  • :set autoread
• 30 Jun 08
  

  harry palmer

  vim tips-and-tricks

  • I, personally, would hate to have that setting on - I like that if a 
    file accidentally gets modified outside of vim, I can always just 
    write out the buffer the way I meant to have it - or selectively merge 
    in changes on my own.  But, in this particular case (a constantly 
    changing test log), I can see the appeal.  So, I would suggest doing 
    it only specific file names, something in .vimrc like: 
    
    augroup vimrcAu 
      au! 
      au BufEnter,BufNew Test.log setlocal autoread 
    augroup END 

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