ShortVim, Autoread
03 Oct 2011This should be in everyone’s .vimrc
No exceptions!!
Automatically updates a file being viewed in vim when it is updated outside of vim.
:help autoread
" When a file has been detected to have been changed outside of Vim and
" it has not been changed inside of Vim, automatically read it again.
" When the file has been deleted this is not done. |timestamp|
" If this option has a local value, use this command to switch back to
" using the global value:
Just add to your .vimrc file
set autoread