This is because as user, *vi* is aliased to *vim* (AKA VI enhanced). As root, when you type vi, you actually run the normal syntax-color-less vi. As for the original question. Make you start vim. If syntax coloring still fails, type :syntax enable Gilboa On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 23:06 -0500, Justin Willmert wrote: > Richard England wrote: > > Constantin CHARISSIS wrote: > > > >> 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 > >> > >> > > Constantin, > > > > Are you certain your path for root and user are letting you get to the > > same version of VIM? > > > > If you have not found a solution, you might consider visiting this URL > > http://www.vim.org/community.php and subscribing to the VIM mailing > > list. It's at least as helpful as this one and more likely to help you > > solve a VIM specific issue. > > > One peculiarity I found was that as any normal user, you can just type > vi and a file name and syntax highlighting is on automatically. With > root, you have to type vim. I don't know why this is, but I'm just > passing on what I've figured out. > > Hope that helps, > Justin Willmert >
