Re: programmingblind Digest V3 #5

*smile* I use ed as well. I started using ed because it's syntax was close enough to the edt editor under OpenVMS that I was able to pick it up quite quickly. I also use nano nowadays, mainly for writing code. 

Nick Stockton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Quaiattini" <Peter_Quaiattini@xxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:05 PM
Subject: RE: programmingblind Digest V3 #5


All -
Some of you may laugh at me, because, although I have used unix for
years, I have never mastered vi and so have the same complaint as does
Eileen. Using CRT, I don't seem to get JAWS to track the cursor; any
tips on this aspect would be greatly appreciated.
Never the less, I have opted to use, and here is where you can't laugh
at me, ed - the line editor. It is simple, powerful enough, available
everywhere  and I'm pretty quick with it.
Anyhow that being the case, when I revise crontab, here's what I do:
1) write the current crontab contents to a temporary text file temp1
with the command: crontab -l > myfile
2) edit temp1 with ed (or what ever you like).
3) Activate the new crontab with the command: "crontab myfile"
Alternatively, you can change the default editor that cron uses by
executing the command: "export EDITOR=ed". I suppose you can set the
value to what ever is the name of your most favorite editor if you don't
like ed. Then, when you execute "crontab -e", it will open with ed (or
what ever editor you specified) instead of vi. HTH

Peter Quaiattini
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From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Replacing crontabs
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:24:29 -0400

On the same note, I find that nano is very easy to use with OpenSSH for
Windows.

Everett
----- Original Message ----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Replacing crontabs



I don't know how to do that, but if you want to use nano or pico for
editing crontab files, you can do:

In your home directory, edit the file .bash_profile and add the

following

lines:

export VISUAL=/usr/bin/nano
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano

Then save the file and re-login with your username.

Each time you will want to make changes to the crontab, you will just

need

to do:

$ crontab -e

This will open crontab in nano. You can edit it then save it with
Control+X like any other file.
I don't know what putty can do, but with SecureCRT you can even paste

text

from the Windows clipboard to nano.

Octavian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileen Lafond" <Eileen.Lafond@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:36 PM
Subject: Replacing crontabs


Hi,
I use Putty and JAWS version 9.   JFW does not work well with the VI
editor so what I do is the following when I need to replace the

crontabs:


crontab -l > myfile

I then make all my changes in UltraEdit.

The problem now is that I cannot find my documentation as to how to

put

the new crontabs back to replace the old ones.  I think that it is the



following:

crontab myfile

I am not sure though.  Can anyone help me with this?  I know that it

is a

very simple statement to get this done, but...

Thanks for any help.

Eileen La Fond
Phone (206) 386-0011
e.mail Eileen.LaFond@xxxxxxxxxxx

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