{"id":1019,"date":"2013-01-08T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T21:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2014-09-17T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:07:10","slug":"retain-vim-color-scheme-in-sudo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/retain-vim-color-scheme-in-sudo\/","title":{"rendered":"Retain Vim Color Scheme in sudo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why <code class=\"codecolorer text default\"><span class=\"text\">vim<\/span><\/code> loses its color schemes and settings when you are in <code class=\"codecolorer text default\"><span class=\"text\">sudo<\/span><\/code> mode? I hate it. But there&#8217;s a way to preserve your <code class=\"codecolorer text default\"><span class=\"text\">vim<\/span><\/code> settings while in <code class=\"codecolorer text default\"><span class=\"text\">sudo<\/span><\/code> mode.<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container bash railscasts\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;width:680px;\"><div class=\"bash codecolorer\"><span class=\"kw2\">sudo<\/span> <span class=\"re5\">-E<\/span> <span class=\"kw2\">vim<\/span> some_file.txt<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The<\/p>\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text railscasts\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;width:680px;\"><table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"line-numbers\"><div>1<br \/><\/div><\/td><td><div class=\"text codecolorer\">-E<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div>\n<p>switch is the holy grail. Or you could use <code class=\"codecolorer text default\"><span class=\"text\">sudoedit<\/span><\/code> if you have it set to using <code class=\"codecolorer text default\"><span class=\"text\">vim<\/span><\/code>. And it&#8217;d have the same effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder why vim loses its color schemes and settings when you are in sudo mode? I hate it. But there&#8217;s a way to preserve your vim settings while in sudo mode. sudo -E vim some_file.txt The 1-E switch is the holy grail. Or you could use sudoedit if you have it set to using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/retain-vim-color-scheme-in-sudo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retain Vim Color Scheme in sudo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","category-geek-stuff","category-tips-tricks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-gr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}