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Date:	Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:17:36 +0100
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Subject:	Re: Can't edit crontab
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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 the above command give a clue?
>
No, not a clue. I get a line in which the "vi" chars appear as part of a 
larger word, but nothing to do with the editor. I tried with "vim" 
instead of "vi" too, but didn't work neither.

In any case thanks a lot for the hint :)

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