On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 05:06:07PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > >Of course, you could just do without the alias and type "vim" rather > >than "vi". > That will not work. sudo does NOT execute the user's profile scripts so > the alias won't work for sudo. The only answer is to actually have sudo > run "vim" instead of "vi". This is a good thing -- sudo should avoid doing anything but what it's told. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>