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.