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Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +0000, Will Parsons wrote: >>Paul Mead wrote: >>>"Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> writes: >>> >>>>Not necessarily. >>>> >>>><http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids> >>>> >>>>You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd >>>>prefer not to track down the permission issues with NT Emacs and >>>>Cygwin. >>> >>>I'd love to use whatever works, I've got no problem using Cygwin emacs >>>or Vim but for some reason, crontab -e insists on firing up a new >>>instance of NT Emacs. >>> >>>Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e? >> >>Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used >>crontab -e. What I do: >> >>crontab -l > crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst > > I always just use the toggle switches on the front panel of my computer. > > Much easier. Was that really necessary? The procedure I use may very well be easier than figuring out the right thing to do to invoke one's editor of choice with the -e option. In my case, I prefer to explicitly to export the crontab table into a file so that I can put it into revision control. At any rate, answering an explicit question from the OP hardly deserves a display of sarcasm. -- Will -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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