editing crontab using gvim
Toby Allsopp
Toby.Allsopp@navman.co.nz
Wed Jan 28 02:24:00 GMT 2009
On Tue, Jan 27 2009, Shai wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Toby Allsopp <XXX@XXX> wrote:
Please don't quote email addresses on this list. See
http://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR.
Also, if you'd waited two more days it would have been a bit funnier.
>> On Tue, Jan 29 2008, Shai wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have gvim installed and when I do:
>> > $ crontab -e
>> > gvim opens up my crontab.
>> >
>> > But, it opens it as readonly and saving it requires wq! but then when
>> > it exits, I see:
>> > $ crontab.exe -e
>> > crontab: no changes made to crontab
>>
>> EDITOR="gvim -f"
>>
>> Without the -f, gvim runs in the background and crontab see it exit
>> immediately without making any changes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Toby.
>
> Hi Toby,
>
> If I use your method, I get this when I try and save the file in gvim:
> E45: 'readonly' option is set (add ! to override)
I'm guessing this probably has something to do with permissions in
/tmp. I suggest you read the User's Guide and FAQ and look into it.
Toby.
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