sudo in terminal

[Matthew Miller]

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.

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