Hi, I have a problem with color syntaxing not working under vim only with the root user. Autoindent/smartindent is also not working under root only .vimrc of both root and normal user : set nocompatible set bs=2 set expandtab syntax on set tabstop=2 set autoindent set smartindent set shiftwidth=2 set ruler set showmatch set encoding=latin9 set fileencodings=latin9 TERM=linux for both With the user : color syntax and indent is working With root : color syntax and indent is not working What is strange is that my 2 chars tab is working under root... I'm running FC4 i386 updated. [root@tux ~]# rpm -qa "vim*" vim-minimal-6.3.086-0.fc4 vim-enhanced-6.3.086-0.fc4 vim-common-6.3.086-0.fc4 Using "strace vim" under root shows that vim reads the .vimrc without problem. Any idea about this problem ? Constantin Charissis DATASWIFT