On 02/16/2012 12:40 PM, Emlio wrote:
Hi all
I'm using cygwin in order to use cron under an XP machine. When I run
the command
$ crontab -e
I get a vi (vim?) editor, but I'm not able to use it propertly. After
pressing insert the keyboard doesn't work properly. For example, if I
press the
On 16 February 2012 at 11:40, Emlio wrote:
I've tried to set the env variable EDITOR as nano, in order to use this
editor instead, but the trick doesn't seem to work in cygwin.
This works fine for me. Are you sure you have nano installed? What's the
result of running `which nano`?
--
Adam
On 02/16/2012 01:14 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
On 16 February 2012 at 11:40, Emlio wrote:
I've tried to set the env variable EDITOR as nano, in order to use this
editor instead, but the trick doesn't seem to work in cygwin.
This works fine for me. Are you sure you have nano installed? What's
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Emlio wrote:
The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is:
$ EDITOR=nano;
And if i type EDITOR nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e I
get the crontab edited by vi(m) again.
set | grep -i vi
Does the output of the above command give a clue?
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Greetings, Emlio!
The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is:
$ EDITOR=nano;
And if i type EDITOR nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e
I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again.
$ EDITOR=nano crontab -e
?
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 16.02.2012, 17:54
Sorry for
On 02/16/2012 02:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Emlio!
The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is:
$ EDITOR=nano;
And if i type EDITOR nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e
I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again.
$ EDITOR=nano crontab -e
?
--
WBR,
Andrey Repin
On 02/16/2012 02:41 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Emlio wrote:
The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is:
$ EDITOR=nano;
And if i type EDITOR nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e I
get the crontab edited by vi(m) again.
set | grep -i vi
Does the output of
On 2012-02-16, Emlio wrote:
On 02/16/2012 02:58 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Emlio!
The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is:
$ EDITOR=nano;
And if i type EDITOR nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e
I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again.
You may need to export EDITOR as
On 2012-02-16, Emlio wrote:
Hi all
I'm using cygwin in order to use cron under an XP machine. When I run
the command
$ crontab -e
I get a vi (vim?) editor, but I'm not able to use it propertly. After
pressing insert the keyboard doesn't work properly. For example, if I
press the
Greetings, Emlio!
The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is:
$ EDITOR=nano;
And if i type EDITOR nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e
I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again.
$ EDITOR=nano crontab -e
?
Yep, this worked!
I had tried similar stuff with pipelines (yes, it's
On 02/16/2012 10:26 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Emlio!
The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is:
$ EDITOR=nano;
And if i type EDITOR nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e
I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again.
$ EDITOR=nano crontab -e
?
Yep, this worked!
I had tried
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