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jeremysj / sudovimrc.md
Created April 28, 2019 01:33
Make sudo vim use your .vimrc

Make sudo vim sane

Using vim with something like sudo vim /path/to/file has historically made my head hurt. All my magic from vim-bootstrap hasn't worked. I knew why, I just didn't care enough to fix it. Until I did.

Fix that with this simple flag: sudo -E vim /path/to/some/file

Voilà!

From man sudo:

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jeremysj / gist:8b4a47092fe3d11c37614d2fd459e859
Created January 26, 2019 19:47 — forked from CristinaSolana/gist:1885435
Keeping a fork up to date

1. Clone your fork:

git clone [email protected]:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream