[CentOS] Vim differences between C4 and C5

[Charles E Campbell Jr]

Rick Barnes wrote:

>I have installed CentOS 4.5 and 5 on 2 separate machines, and both have
>default installs of vim-enhanced on each of them.
>
>I noticed that I can get syntax highlighting as a regular user, sudo and
>as root in C4.5. In C5 I only get highlighting as a regular user.
>  
>
* Check that your /etc/vimrc is actually being loaded:

vim -V

should produce verbose details on what is being sourced by vim.

* Another check:  do

vim --version

and make sure that +syntax shows up.

I usually use  /root/.vimrc  to do root-specific vim stuff, myself.

Regards,
Chip Campbell