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Del Pede

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Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 27

using nano instead of vi with crontab

This is doing my head in.
How do i change crontab to use nano instead of vi, when i do crontab -e?

I've changed my .bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc to have "export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano" in them, and echo $EDITOR tells me, that nano is the default editor. Still crontab uses vi.

I'd really love to be able to use nano instead.

Thanks
Del Pede

grawity

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2009-10-15

Posts: 8

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Re: using nano instead of vi with crontab

It seems that crontab uses $VISUAL instead of $EDITOR.

You might want to add this line to bashrc:

export VISUAL=$EDITOR

Del Pede

Member

Registered: 2007-11-13

Posts: 27

Re: using nano instead of vi with crontab

It seems that crontab uses $VISUAL instead of $EDITOR.

You might want to add this line to bashrc:

export VISUAL=$EDITOR

Absolute Golden. That did it. Thanks alot

brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: using nano instead of vi with crontab

Just what I've been looking. Thanks.

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