On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:59:22 PM UTC+12, Dahong Tang wrote:
> ... using sudo vim ...
Running any editor as root is dangerous, especially an extensible one like vim.
Better to use sudoedit or sudo -e, with one of EDITOR, VISUAL or SUDO_EDITOR set to run vim; I use EDITOR='gvim -f'.
Interestingly, I find sudoedit ignores a lack of write permission.
Regards, John Little
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