Re: History doesn't work !

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 02:17:34PM -0700, Tintin72 wrote:
>>>Did you use sudo vim instead of sudo -e ?
>>
>> Yes I did. I don't know sudo -e. What it's about ?
>
> man sudo will tell you. It runs the editor as a normal user on a
> temporary file. Then sudo writes the content to the real file.
>
> It should be used instead of just plain sudo to prevent running
> the editor as root.
>

I read "man sudo" but I do not understand what it is saying.

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