Tips: reload your file on saving

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - Basics: [Folding?](README.md#folding)
 - Commands: [:redir](README.md#redir)
 - Tips: [Saner command-line history](README.md#saner-command-line-history)
+- Tips: [Reload a file on saving](README.md#reload-a-file-on-saving)
 - Usage: [Editing remote files](README.md#editing-remote-files)
 - Usage: [Restore cursor position when opening file](README.md#restore-cursor-position-when-opening-file)
 - Usage: [MatchIt](README.md#matchit)

README.md

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ added every day. Things about to be added can be found here:
 - [Quickly change font size in GUI](#quickly-change-font-size-in-gui)
 - [Change cursor style in insert mode](#change-cursor-style-in-insert-mode)
 - [Don't lose selection when shifting sidewards](#dont-lose-selection-when-shifting-sidewards)
+- [Reload a file on saving](#reload-a-file-on-saving)
 
 #### [Commands](#commands-1)
 
@@ -1192,6 +1193,17 @@ Now you can use `>>>>>` on your visual selection without any problems.
 
 **NOTE**: The same can be achieved using `.`, which repeats the last change.
 
+#### Reload a file on saving
+
+Using [autocmds](#autocmds) you can do anything on saving a file, e.g. sourcing
+it in case of a dotfile or running a linter to check for syntactical errors in
+your source code.
+
+```viml
+autocmd BufWritePost $MYVIMRC source $MYVIMRC
+autocmd BufWritePost ~/.Xdefaults call system('xrdb ~/.Xdefaults')
+```
+
 ## Commands
 
 Useful commands that are good to know.