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Re: crontab -e

From: Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty(at)porchlight.ca>
Date: Mon Sep 03 2007 - 20:46:30 EDT

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:22:28PM -0700, Raquel wrote:
> I have a new install of Etch. When I issue the command
> #crontab -e
> I get the nano editor. I would really rather use the vim editor.
> How do I change what gets used?

Do you have an EDITOR environment variable set? The man page says that it follows EDITOR or VISUAL if set. If not, it likely follows sensible-editor which is part of the debian alternatives system.

Doug.

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