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Date:	Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:48:27 +0100
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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 similar stuff with pipelines (yes, it's called desperation),
>> but hadn't think of this idea.
> Then export your variable in ~/.bashrc
>
> And please don't CC list messages to me personally.
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> Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 17.02.2012,<01:03>
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
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Thanks, the export thing was what I as missing.

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