Re: editing crontab using gvim

2009-02-18 Thread Shai
Hi, Thanks for the response. About the quoting, that's a reply I'm just doing via Gmail, I don't recall actually doing anything special to have that quote the email. I'll see if there are other the things I can check, like the /tmp permissions. Shai On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Toby Allsopp

Re: editing crontab using gvim

2009-01-27 Thread Toby Allsopp
On Tue, Jan 27 2009, Shai wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Toby Allsopp wrote: Please don't quote email addresses on this list. See http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Also, if you'd waited two more days it would have been a bit funnier. >> On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Shai wrote:

Re: editing crontab using gvim

2009-01-26 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-01-27, Shai wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Toby Allsopp wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Shai wrote: > > > I have gvim installed and when I do: > > > $ crontab -e > > > gvim opens up my crontab. > > > > > > But, it opens it as readonly and saving it requires wq! but then when

Re: editing crontab using gvim

2009-01-26 Thread Shai
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Toby Allsopp wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Shai wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have gvim installed and when I do: > > $ crontab -e > > gvim opens up my crontab. > > > > But, it opens it as readonly and saving it requires wq! but then when > > it exits, I see: > > $ c

Re: editing crontab using gvim

2008-01-29 Thread Toby Allsopp
On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Shai wrote: > Hi, > > I have gvim installed and when I do: > $ crontab -e > gvim opens up my crontab. > > But, it opens it as readonly and saving it requires wq! but then when > it exits, I see: > $ crontab.exe -e > crontab: no changes made to crontab EDITOR="gvim -f" Withou

RE: editing crontab using gvim

2008-01-29 Thread Dave Korn
On 29 January 2008 07:21, Shai wrote: > > Any ideas what I can do to resolve this? Well, the quickest workaround would be alias editctab='crontab -l > /tmp/crontab.$USER && gvim /tmp/crontab.$USER && crontab /tmp/crontab.$USER' cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline tod

editing crontab using gvim

2008-01-28 Thread Shai
Hi, I have gvim installed and when I do: $ crontab -e gvim opens up my crontab. But, it opens it as readonly and saving it requires wq! but then when it exits, I see: $ crontab.exe -e crontab: no changes made to crontab But I did do the changes! Anyways, if I use this command to edit my crontab: