*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 BITS OPS - Data Hosting Services Canadian Pacific Railway (403) 319-6579 peter_quaiattini@xxxxxx 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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