On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM, sc <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 21 May 2010 10:30:18 am James Vega wrote: > >> That's a workaround, not a fix. Any program which is run via >> sudo, without passing the -i flag, is going to have $HOME set >> to the calling user's homedir instead of that of the user >> they're sudoing to. The proper fix is to educate users to >> understand this since it affects more than just Vim. > > i took that to mean that i can have > > cd ~/.build/hgvim/vim > > as the first line of my install script and i could run it with > sudo > > for me, however, i get an error that there is no > /root/.build/hgvim/vim and it can't find my script
You're not using the $HOME environment variable. You're using ~, which your shell interprets based on the effective user that it is running as, similar to what the OP suggested. I was specifically talking about the case of relying on the $HOME environment variable, which is what Vim uses to decide where to place the viminfo file. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]> -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
