Mario Gamito gamito@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

How can I have vi with syntax hilghting for root ? Regular users have it, but not root's.

I've seen the hidden files of a regular user home, but found nothing.

Thanks in advance.

Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

This was discussed previously soon after CentOS 5.0 was released. The upstream distribution changed root from using vim (with syntax highlighting) to using vi. With the 4.X versions root was using vim. The 5.X configuration is:

[root@bend ~]# which vi /bin/vi

[dave@bend ~]# which vi vi: aliased to vim [dave@bend ~]# which vim /usr/bin/vim

The idea is that vi is in /bin which should be available if the system can boot at all. Stuff under /usr may be in a different partition and, thus, may not be available for some reason.

Cheers, Dave