* Derrick 'dman' Hudson (dman@dman13.dyndns.org) [030624 10:56]:
> On the ("new") debian server at work, my boss wants bash to be in
> 'emacs' mode when he su's to root. I work with 'vi' mode, however.
> Is there some way for the .bashrc to recognize whether he su'd to root
> or I did and set the editing mode appropriately?
Something like this should work.
~/bin/mysu :
#!/bin/sh
su -c 'bash --init-file ~/.bashrc-dman' -
/root/.bashrc-dman :
set -o vi
good times,
Vineet
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