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From: Toby Allsopp <Toby.Allsopp@navman.co.nz>
Subject:  Re: editing crontab using gvim
Date:  Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:42:14 +1300
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On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Shai wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have gvim installed and when I do:
> $ crontab -e
> gvim opens up my crontab.
>
> But, it opens it as readonly and saving it requires wq! but then when
> it exits, I see:
> $ crontab.exe -e
> crontab: no changes made to crontab

EDITOR="gvim -f"

Without the -f, gvim runs in the background and crontab see it exit
immediately without making any changes.

Regards,
Toby.


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