[FC4] [VIM] Problem with color syntax and other under root

Chris Grau chris at chrisgrau.com
Sat Oct 8 05:20:36 UTC 2005


On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 11:06:49PM -0500, Justin Willmert wrote:
> 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.

[cgrau at anubis ~]$ alias vi
alias vi='vim'
[cgrau at anubis ~]$ su -
Password:
[root at anubis ~]# alias vi
-bash: alias: vi: not found

-- 
Chris Grau <chris at chrisgrau.com>
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