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Re: How to edit crontab using emacs over ssh
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: How to edit crontab using emacs over ssh |
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Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:57:24 -0500 |
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In article <mailman.2926.1225894506.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Ruohao Li <mouse.emacs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in shell mode, logged in on another machine over ssh, and I want to
> do some 'crontab -e' editing on that machine. But that will bring up a
> new editor, which is whatever you set in your EDITOR env variable, and
> both vi and emacs cannot be used in this dumb shell. How can I edit the
> crontab in my emacs session?
Set EDITOR on the remove system to a line editor instead of a visual
editor, e.g. ed or ex.
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