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