Luca Ferrari wrote: > > Hi Luca, are you running fedora 2? I actually tried to > > open the crontab using vi and it seems the default > > editor for crontabs on my system is not set to vi. So > > for example once the crontab has been opened i am not > > able to save it using vi commands. so puting the same > > exact line on .profile file should export an editor of > > my choice. can i export nano? > > At the moment no, I'm running the 1 and other suse systems. > Nevertheless, what does echo $EDITOR shows to you? It should be the > editor used. The crontab program probably uses $VISUAL in preference to $EDITOR. Historically, $EDITOR would be used on a "dumb" terminal which didn't support curses-style functionality (e.g. a hardcopy terminal), while $VISUAL would be used on a terminal which was capable of supporting a "visual" editor such as vi. Nowadays, most programs take it for granted that all terminals are capable of supporting a visual editor, and try $VISUAL first then $EDITOR, regardless of the terminal type. FWIW, most versions of vi fall back to behaving like ed if the terminal doesn't provide the necessary functionality (e.g. cursor positioning). -- Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@xxxxxxxxxx> - : 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
