On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:47:33PM +0000, Will Parsons wrote: >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
I always just use the toggle switches on the front panel of my computer. Much easier. cgf -- 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
