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Hi,
2 days ago I have an issue when I execute "crontab -e" with my terminal maximized. The error say "Screen too large for internal buffer" and the term crash. But when the term isn't maximized the command works fine. I tried with teminal (XFCE), Konsole, rxvt... My screen resolution is 1680x1050. With visudo command I have the same issue.
¿Anybody have this problem too?
Many thanks
Last edited by figue (2009-08-01 10:38:09)
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This problem is related to vi and is internal buffer size being fixed while compilation time and so there's just a certain number of rows vi can handle at the same time before going crazy... I would suggest installing vim which handles this better.
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Thank you Rorschach, I have vim installed, but is possible visudo and crontab use vi. I'll find how to change it this night.
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I believe both use the environmental variable EDITOR. You should set it to vim. Like
export EDITOR=vim
within your .bashrc.
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Could you have also used Screen to reduce the area they had to work in?
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