X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Yahoo-SMTP: iB.Y1pyswBCVTHQwCHOxm.lpuw-- Message-ID: <4F3CF561.6060309@yahoo.es> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:24:01 +0100 From: Emlio User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120131 Thunderbird/10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't edit crontab References: <4F3CEB27.8060004@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 02/16/2012 01:14 PM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On 16 February 2012 at 11:40, Emlio wrote: >> I've tried to set the env variable EDITOR as nano, in order to use this >> editor instead, but the trick doesn't seem to work in cygwin. > This works fine for me. Are you sure you have nano installed? What's the > result of running `which nano`? > Yep, nano is installed: $ which.exe nano /usr/bin/nano 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple