Paul Mead wrote: > "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only...@cygwin.com> writes: > >> Not necessarily. >> >> <http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-ids> >> >> You should be more successful with a Cygwin-enabled editor, if you'd >> prefer not to track down the permission issues with NT Emacs and Cygwin. > > I'd love to use whatever works, I've got no problem using Cygwin emacs > or Vim but for some reason, crontab -e insists on firing up a new > instance of NT Emacs. > > Is there no way of just creating the file without using crontab -e?
Sure. I've been editing crontabs for years and have never once used crontab -e. What I do: crontab -l > crontab.lst edit crontab.lst crontab crontab.lst -- Will -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
