At 2007-03-10T10:51:23+1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> 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).
VISUAL is not for the display of a read-only file, it's for setting your
preferred visual editor. EDITOR may be set to a non-visual editor. vi is
an example of a visual editor, ed is an example of a non-visual editor.
Once you know the definition of VISUAL, it's pretty obvious why crontab(1)
would prefer VISUAL to EDITOR if both have been set.
Cheers,
-mjg
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