On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@xxxxxx> wrote: > * Attila <attila@invalid.invalid> [2008-08-30 20:12]: >> >> And this works? I even see vi if i run a "crontab -e" which is the reason that >> i don't remove it until now. This is not bad because i use anacron and so i >> have only to fight one time for one line with vi.-) > > $ VISUAL=nano crontab -e Oh man, can we stop this discussion? Both are staying. For the record, though, vi is required by SUS v2. While I don't think we follow all directives of the spec, it's useful to know that there *is* a standard that says "vi is part of unix" http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcuix.html