Hi,
When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi
installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE
environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set
export EDITOR=emacs
Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e.
/tmp/cron.1900)
However, when I close emacs (with or without saveing changes to the
tmp file) crontab displays "crontab: no changes made to crontab".
Where's the flaw?
i have the same problem on slackware. both 8.0 and 8.1 have this
problem: if i set EDITOR=vim, my changes are not saved. if i set
EDITOR=elvis, all is ok. havent tried emacs..