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Re: Trouble creating crontab
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Paul Mead wrote:
> If not, how do I get it to use a different editor? I already have
> EDITOR=/bin/vim in my .profile and have tried /bin/vim.exe in case that
> was the problem.
A couple quick things to check:
1. Make sure the EDITOR variable is exported. Just setting it locally
in bash won't affect crontab.
2. Make sure VISUAL isn't set differently; it overrides EDITOR for some apps.
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