How to apply saved settings in vim without closing the terminal?

Question

vim

What I do is change the file, type :wq, then close and reopen the terminal, but that's just awkward.
I realized that if you change the file and enter :source <file name> then the settings will be applied, only my php.ini turns red after that.
Thank you for your response

Answer 1

Put this code at the top of your .vimrc file:

"" auto reload after modification
augroup reload_vimrc " {
    autocmd!
    autocmd BufWritePost .vimrc source .vimrc
augroup END " }

and each time the file is written, the source .vimrc command will be executed .