On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:43:44 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Somebody suggested adding something new to crontab and seeing if it > works. I tried it. Alas, even though I have both EDITOR and VISUAL set > in both .bashrc and .bash_profile, crontab -e insists on invoking vi, an > editor that I despise, and refuse to learn. (I prefer nano, and have > that set as my default editor for EVERYTHING in a terminal.) Does > anybody know how to force crontab to do what I want, not what it's > author wants? Verify that $EDITOR is set actually. $EDITOR is evaluated here just fine. And $ echo $EDITOR emacs $ EDITOR=nano crontab -e <Ctrl-X> crontab: no changes made to crontab works for me as a test for using "nano". I use a custom $EDITOR for a very long time, and crontab -e has accepted it happily for a very long time, too. Only somebody, who can reproduce your problems or who has seen the problems before, may be able to help you. -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux 3.9.0-0.rc3.git1.3.fc19.x86_64 loadavg: 0.37 0.48 0.39 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
