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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:26:08 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru>
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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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