On Friday 14 March 2003 09:08 pm, Andy Davidson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Miark wrote: > > Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with > > eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have > > brought that up in Bugzilla. > > I just tried 'crontab -e' after changing my EDITOR shell variable to > vi. And it worked! Can anybody explain this? Emacs works fine for > crontab in both 8.1 and 8.2. Are we into holy war here?
This rings a bell for me. I ran into something like it and if it's similar it's the exit value from emacs - check by editing a file using >ls >test; emacs test; echo $? Betcha the exit value is non-zero.
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