Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: Crontab problems Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:24:06 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: "Nicholas Wourms" , "Raphael" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g8BLOK330873 I can think of several Cygwin-supported alternatives/workarounds. None of them address your question, however. 1. Set the environment variable EDITOR to 'vi' or 'vim', as suggested by Nicholas Wourms: $ export EDITOR=vi $ crontab -e 2. Install 'nano' using 'setup.exe'. nano is a small emacs-like editor (closer to emacs than to vi). Then set EDITOR to nano: $ export EDITOR=nano $ crontab -e 3. Install 'emacs' using 'setup.exe' and set EDITOR to 'emacs' or 'emacs -nw': $ export EDITOR=emacs $ crontab -e > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 4:48 PM > To: Raphael; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Crontab problems > > > > --- Raphael wrote: > > Hi guys/girls~, > > > > I'm having a bit of a problem with my windows based editor. Using > > it with > > Pine or Mutt is not problem. Using it with Crontab -e gives a > > sharing > > violation error when I want to save the new file. > > > > Is this a crontab problem? > > Use vi.exe > > __________________________________________________ > Yahoo! - We Remember > 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost > http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/