On Thursday 29 July 2004 11:04 Keletso Keletso's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Hopefully someone can offer assistance here. I am > trying to edit user-defined crontabs which stored in > /var/spool/cron using crontab -e. Now I am being > informed I cannot use vi to edit those crontabs and > instead must extract and export a different editor > (pref VISUAL). Could anyone assist me with the steps > (e.g. which env profile file must i change to make > this accomodation and what is the script code). > I'm using vi to edit crontab, but you can simply changing the editor doing: export EDITOR=emacs crontab -e that will start using emacs. You can add the export= line to you .profile (or .bash_profile) file. Why aren't you using vi? It's quite fast for editing crontabs.... Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
