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Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab


On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote:

> * Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100)
> > Dear all, since the first time using "crontab -", I can never change the
> > crontab file anymore. "crontab -e" calls emacs, but cron just discarded any
> > new modifications. The emacs saved the "crontab.*****" into /tmp. What's
> > wrong? Thanks.
>
> Try using another editor as Emacs is a GUI editor.

This has nothing to do with emacs being a GUI editor (which it isn't, BTW,
or not necessarily).  This does have to do with the editor writing files
in-place.  I'm not sure if either the native or the Cygwin port of emacs
does.  That said, Thorsten did provide a good rule of thumb: most GUI
editors, especially Windows ones, don't write files in place.
	Igor
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