On Sat 10 Mar 2007 10:29:28 NZDT +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > The -e option is used to edit the current crontab using the editor > specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR > environment variables. After you exit from the editor, the > modified crontab will be installed automati- > cally.
Well whatever they say, you'd need to set both those variables and fact is that VISUAL takes precedence (something they don't say, and which is a bit dubious for an application which clearly need to edit a file). > echo $EDITOR, $VISUAL nedit, nedit > env EDITOR=joe crontab -e Pops up nedit. This behaviour has existed more than a decade ago on Solaris and forever on Linux. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
