On Tue, Jan 27 2009, Shai wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Toby Allsopp <x...@xxx> wrote:
Please don't quote email addresses on this list. See http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Also, if you'd waited two more days it would have been a bit funnier. >> On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Shai wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have gvim installed and when I do: >> > $ crontab -e >> > gvim opens up my crontab. >> > >> > But, it opens it as readonly and saving it requires wq! but then when >> > it exits, I see: >> > $ crontab.exe -e >> > crontab: no changes made to crontab >> >> EDITOR="gvim -f" >> >> Without the -f, gvim runs in the background and crontab see it exit >> immediately without making any changes. >> >> Regards, >> Toby. > > Hi Toby, > > If I use your method, I get this when I try and save the file in gvim: > E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override) I'm guessing this probably has something to do with permissions in /tmp. I suggest you read the User's Guide and FAQ and look into it. Toby. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
