From 2f34bfac9fb49c7bbd08070587f31ea28da24d34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Westrup <erik.westrup@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 19:15:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] README: add Lua example code for auto-running PackerCompile

Many users come to Packer because they can migrate to a complete
Lua-based config for NeoVim. Thus it makes sense to have a code example
not only in Vimscript for auto-running PackerCompile on changes to
`plugins.lua` but also an example in Lua.
---
 README.md | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e1a3c412f..48acbd1e2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -208,6 +208,16 @@ vim.cmd([[
 ]])
 ```
 
+or using the equivalent Lua code:
+```lua
+local augroup_packer = vim.api.nvim_create_augroup("packer_user_config", { clear = true })
+vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ "BufWritePost" }, {
+	pattern = "plugins.lua",
+	group = augroup_packer,
+	command = "source <afile> | PackerCompile",
+})
+```
+
 ## Bootstrapping
 
 If you want to automatically install and set up `packer.nvim` on any machine you clone your configuration to,