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Re: crontab



On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:16:18PM -0000, Ari Sigurðsson wrote:
> how do I get crontab -e to use my favorite editor?

Set the environment variable EDITOR to your favorite editor, e.g.
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi or
EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs

(If you're using csh do five hail marys and alter the above accordingly :)

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