root and vim

[randyriegel]

When I use Vi under my root account it does not have syntax highlighting or any of the settings under /etc/vimrc. All the regular user accounts everything works fine.

How can I have my root user see the settings in /etc/vimrc?
btw, running CentOS.
Randy

[JPC-Anoop]

Hi,

Can you please submit a ticket with the server login credentials so we can have a check?

[randyriegel]

Thanks tech support! Although I feel like a moron, that was too easy. I always typed 'vi' instead of 'vim' to edit files. So I needed to create alias:

alias vi='vim'

and that's it! Syntax highlighting and everything works now.

Randy

[jason]

I personally can't stand the syntax highlighting of vim. I find the colors it uses are often much to hard to read. I spend my days working in vi on Solaris boxes at work, then I run vi (aliased to vim) on my VPS and go nuts. Of course I haven't bothered to change that so...

--Jason

[randyriegel]

I had the colors changed on my shared server. I think I have the config files saved somewhere hope I can find them because I don't like the default colors either. I like the highlighting just don't like it's default scheme.

[JPC-Ahmed]

I prefer to use nano or pico for text editing.