[sudo-users] Sudo and vi and syntax coloring

Chris Anderson chris at bladedog.com
Mon Jun 28 09:22:38 EDT 2004


Hello,

Has anyone encountered this and have a solution?...

If I'm a normal user my syntax coloring works.

If I'm root my syntax coloring works.

If I'm a normal user using sudo to edit something in vi, I am unable to get
syntax coloring.

>sudo vi test.txt

This is on a Red Hat Linux box and I'm using xterm-color terminal emulation.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Chris





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