Uwe Mayer wrote: > Hi, > > When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi > installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE > environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set > > export EDITOR=emacs > > Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e. > /tmp/cron.1900) > However, when I close emacs (with or without saveing changes to the > tmp file) crontab displays "crontab: no changes made to crontab". > > Where's the flaw?
i have the same problem on slackware. both 8.0 and 8.1 have this problem: if i set EDITOR=vim, my changes are not saved. if i set EDITOR=elvis, all is ok. havent tried emacs.. i guess it's a problem with cron. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
