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#1 2009-10-15 17:54:53

Del Pede
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Registered: 2007-11-13
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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

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#2 2009-10-15 18:28:19

grawity
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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

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#3 2009-10-15 18:52:08

Del Pede
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Re: using nano instead of vi with crontab

grawity wrote:

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

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#4 2009-10-21 12:30:07

brazzmonkey
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Re: using nano instead of vi with crontab

Just what I've been looking. Thanks.


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