On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 12:05 -0500, cothrige wrote: > * Johannes Wiedersich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Which editor are you using? Please do a > > ll /etc/alternatives/editor > > Oddly it says nano as well, but my EDITOR and VISUAL variables are > both set to emacs, which is that which I use generally. And that is > what was invoked with crontab -e both times, and not nano. BTW, I > found that just as with Slackware, the EDITOR variable does not seem > to change the crontab editor, but VISUAL does. I found it out as in > trying to intentionally use vi instead I had to change VISUAL to make > it come up. Nothing online seemed to indicate this is so but the > Debian helps and such all mention EDITOR. Have you had this > experience?
Can't recall off my head, I set them both. Anyhow, when you do 'crontab -e' what temp file name does it give, and then do 'save file' from emacs, precisely what happens? > > since I configured nano as the default editor. I suspect that you might > > unknowingly run an unfamiliar editor and might unknowingly quit without > > saving. > > Okay, I think I figured it out. In typing this email I was going to > yank in the output of crontab -l as it is odd. hang on, I thought you said it had *nothing* before.... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
