On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Sebastian Marten wrote:
On 5 vi have no syntax highlighting while vim have it.
Whats wrong?
In CentOS 4, by default vi is aliased to vim. The unaliased vi
does not have syntax highlighting.
Could it be that vi is not aliased to vim by default in CentOS 5?
Run the 'alias' command to see a list of aliases. If you want to
alias vi to vim, just run: alias vi=vim
I believe that root is the only user where this happens ...
That is correct, with a non-root user it works.
I know *nix is all about letting you do it your own way, but imo root
ought to have as few aliases, odd $PATH entries, special shell
functions, etc. as possible. The fewer abstractions, the better, so
you don't have to think much about what you're *really* doing when
you're mucking about as root.
Even the RHEL standard shell aliases (e.g., rm="rm -i") strike me as
too much for root. If I want vim, I ought to invoke "vim," not "vi."
That's doubly or trebly true in a multi-platform environment with
several sysadmins. Who really wants to have to document and remember
all the special instructions associated root's command-line
environment with each released version of $LINUX_DISTRO and/or Solaris
and/or $BSD and/or OS X?
But that's just me...
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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein@xxxxxxxxxx <> www.madboa.com
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