sudo in terminal

[H. Crissman]

Matt Morgan wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:13:07 -0500, H. Crissman
><hcrissman at secure-mind.net> wrote:
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>>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.
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>This is a wild guess. Maybe the paths are different when you sudo, and
>you're getting a different vi when you sudo? There's only one vi on my
>current FC3 system but in the past, on other linuxes and Unixes, I've
>occasionally had multiple ones installed. Try
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>which vi
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>as yourself and as root (get there with su -) and see if they're different.
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Thanks for the reply. That does not appear to be it. I get the same path 
for both. Any other ideas?

H. Crissman