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    # 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`:
    ```
    ...
    -E, --preserve-env
    Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to preserve their existing environment variables. The security policy may return an error if the user does not
    have permission to preserve the environment.
    ...
    ```