israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu schrieb: > Maybe, it's stupid question but I've just installed CentOS5 and when I'm > going to edit some of my conf files I see no colors as it did in old > CentOS4x... > I'm using: > > [root at domian:~]$ echo $TERM > xterm Take a look at: # cat /etc/profile.d/vim.sh if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" -o -n "$KSH_VERSION" -o -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ]; then [ -x /usr/bin/id ] || return [ `/usr/bin/id -u` -le 100 ] && return # for bash and zsh, only if no alias is already set alias vi >/dev/null 2>&1 || alias vi=vim fi So you do not get vim for root... Hth Rainer