RE: [Sheflug] Spam filtering : Qwik CRON tutorial KCron

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet " Chris Johnson" uttered these words of wisdom:
>
> Just taken me 15 minutes to get out of VIM after doing crontab -e
> aaargh!
> I'm sure its really good for those that can use it but i'm not one.  I
> think
> it was ctrl+z that got me out in the end, please correct me if I'm wrong
> so
> it doesn't take so long next time.

Try:


    EDITOR=/path/to/your/favourite/editor
    export EDITOR

or (if you use a csh variant)

    setenv EDITOR /path/to/your/favourite/editor

and crontab should use that instead.

Chris...


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