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I'm relatively new to Vimperator and have started adding preferences to my .vimperatorrc file. Is there a way of reloading this file without having to restart Firefox?

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You can load additions to your ~/.vimperatorrc with

:source ~/.vimperatorrc

Note if you removed some setting from your configuration file, after sourcing the new file the old option settings will still be in place if they are not overwritten with some new setting, since basically :source just runs the configuration file as if you would enter them at the prompt.

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Excellent, thanks! –  Charles Roper Mar 22 '10 at 16:55
Also, autocommand statements add up, but you can remove all of them using au! before reloading your .vimperratorrc. –  blueyed Aug 26 '10 at 10:57
sourcing the file like this seems to only affect the current window, at least for key mappings. –  devkev Jan 9 at 3:06

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