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Re: editing crontab using gvim


Hi,

Thanks for the response. About the quoting, that's a reply I'm just
doing via Gmail, I don't recall actually doing anything special to
have that quote the email.

I'll see if there are other the things I can check, like the /tmp permissions.

Shai

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Toby Allsopp <XXX@XXX> wrote:
> 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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