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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:34:02 +0200
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Subject: Re: editing crontab using gvim
From: Shai <shaibn AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Toby Allsopp <Toby DOT Allsopp AT navman DOT co DOT nz> wrote:
>
> 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.

Hi Toby,

If I use your method, I get this when I try and save the file in gvim:
E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override)

Shai

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