cothrige wrote:
* Johannes Wiedersich (johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:As said by michael in another reply, the alternatives are overriden by EDITOR or VISUAL.Yes, that would make sense, but I had unset these in trying to get vito work with crontab. I guess I had assumed that vi would be the standard editor and thought that commenting out the variables in my .bashrc and then sourcing that would bring up vi or vim. But, emacs still came up. In looking back it would seem that nano should have.
Hello,I am on Slackware 10.1 box right now and the man page for crontab states that crontab -e will use /usr/bin/vi or VISUAL. It does not mention EDITOR. On this box if VISUAL is not set, vi is run. If I set VISUAL to something else I get that.
Maybe strace can help to find out what crontab actually does to get emacs started. And maybe first check that VISUAL is indeed unset.
Best regards, Serban