Problems using vim to edit crontabs

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yes, I've seen what you describe, though it only happens to me if I
login as a normal user, do a su to become root so I can edit root's
crontab, and am using emacs, since my normal user's $EDITOR and
$VISUAL are set for emacs, but root's $EDITOR and $VISUAL are the
defaults (I.E. vi).

Greg


On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 09:52:25AM -0500, Garrett Klein wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 	I've been having an interesting problem with editting my
> crontabs using crontab -e on Slackware 10.1. I've been trying to learn
> vi/vim commands, so I have vim set as my $EDITOr and $VISUAL so crontab
> -e (and other things) will pick it up by default. However, after using
> :wq to write out the crontab file, if I do crontab -l, I get the
> contents of my crontab before it was editted (i.e. it's not picking up
> the modifications for some reason). Anyone else experienced this
> problem?
> 
> Garrett
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