Re: sudo in terminal

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Am Di, den 22.02.2005 schrieb H. Crissman um 20:13:

> When I "vi example.file" the text inside the file is color coded based 
> on format (ie. commented out lines are blue). But when I "sudo vi 
> example.file" that color coding is lost. How can I enable that when I 
> edit a file using sudo? It really helps when you are looking at a long 
> config file.

> H. Crissman

vi is not vim. vi is just an alias to vim. So if you use "sudo" you
invoke vi instead of vim. vi has no highlighting capabilities, which is
even a feature provided by the vim-enhanced package.

sudo vim <file>

and you have back your syntax highlighting.

Alexander


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