Hallo Igor, Monday, October 7, 2002, 3:44:41 AM, you wrote:
IP> The correct name for the variable is VISUAL, although EDITOR also works. I found it again. "man 1 crontab" >> export EDITOR=emacs >> >> Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e. >> /tmp/cron.1900) >> However, when I close emacs (with or without saveing changes to the >> tmp file) crontab displays "crontab: no changes made to crontab". IP> If you are running Cygwin emacs, make sure it's writing the file in place. IP> In a separate shell, check that the inode number of the temp file is the IP> same before and after emacs has written the changes (using 'ls -i'). IP> Igor I was useing the text-mode version of emacs from Cygwin. I did that. After exporting VISUAL I called crontab -e and had a look at the inode: merkosh@M111 /tmp $ ls -i 1129733 crontab.2072 Then I saved the file from emacs: merkosh@M111 /tmp $ ls -i 868475 crontab.2072 1129733 crontab.2072~ Then I quit emacs, not saveing again: merkosh@M111 /tmp $ ls -i 934013 #crontab.2072# 1129733 crontab.2072~ :( You were right. The original file was renamed to <filename>~. I'll have to check if I can disable that. I remember reading somewhere about that. Thanks very much. That was a good idea. Ciao Uwe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
