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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:38:50 -0800
From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn AT spocom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Can't edit crontab
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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 well.

HTH,
Gary


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