Hi, Thanks for the response. About the quoting, that's a reply I'm just doing via Gmail, I don't recall actually doing anything special to have that quote the email.
I'll see if there are other the things I can check, like the /tmp permissions. Shai On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Toby Allsopp <x...@xxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27 2009, Shai wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Toby Allsopp <x...@xxx> wrote: > > Please don't quote email addresses on this list. See > http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. > > Also, if you'd waited two more days it would have been a bit funnier. > >>> On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Shai wrote: >>> >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I have gvim installed and when I do: >>> > $ crontab -e >>> > gvim opens up my crontab. >>> > >>> > But, it opens it as readonly and saving it requires wq! but then when >>> > it exits, I see: >>> > $ crontab.exe -e >>> > crontab: no changes made to crontab >>> >>> EDITOR="gvim -f" >>> >>> Without the -f, gvim runs in the background and crontab see it exit >>> immediately without making any changes. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Toby. >> >> Hi Toby, >> >> If I use your method, I get this when I try and save the file in gvim: >> E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override) > > I'm guessing this probably has something to do with permissions in > /tmp. I suggest you read the User's Guide and FAQ and look into it. > > Toby. > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/