On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 01:32 +0200, nigel henry wrote: > Right. OK. Thanks to you Todd, and to Mikkel. I don't expect anyone to > hold my > hand through this, but crontab -e brings up a blank page with some > short line > markers on the left side, and "/tmp/crontab.3449" OL, OC at the bottom > of the > page. How do I find out which editor this is using? I've used nano a > bit, but > not vi, or emacs. I've been through man 5 crontab a few times, but it > only > shows you the layout for setting up crontab. > > A couple of hints would be usefull. > it's vi, or possibly vim. there's a great tutorial at http://www.vi-improved.com/ in a style similar to IRC, if you're familiar with that. Should get you up to speed with using vim's modes in no time.
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