Re: Can't edit crontab

[Emlio <uc3709 at yahoo dot es>]

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.

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