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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.
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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,
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