From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 03:15:10 +0200 Message-ID: <86h89zyx29.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <865zqg85qd.fsf@zoho.eu> <87lfzbkje6.fsf@mbork.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="253691"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 13 03:15:42 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hPzZ7-0013tI-8n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 03:15:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49244 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPzZ6-0005EP-A3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 May 2019 21:15:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53559) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPzYp-0005E9-Nt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 May 2019 21:15:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPzYo-0004JH-1k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 May 2019 21:15:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36652 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hPzYn-0004Eg-QQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 12 May 2019 21:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hPzYl-0013YC-1q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 May 2019 03:15:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:IoaGRRq78uwA8NJkf7dH+828rtc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120331 Archived-At: Noam Postavsky wrote: > I think the answer here would be to set > EDITOR to emacsclient. Thanks to all of you, you are right of course! In Emacs, do M-x server-start RET Then in the shell do $ EDITOR=emacsclient crontab -e Then edit the file in Emacs and do `C-x #' when done. The MELPA `crontab-mode' does not kick in by default tho, but one can live with that, or configure it, I suppose, based on the crontab filename. As for me, I think I'll uninstall it as I don't plan to do that much scheduling with crontab. Not everything has to have its own mode! Just like with space. Just because we are in space, not _everything_ has to be called something with "space": the "space bar", "space police", etc. Right? Anyway if anyone is hooked on SX rep here is the exact same question [1] but with a couple of comments and an answer and there is no mention of this method, which IMO works much better than their by all means creative attempts :) [1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/10077/how-to-edit-crontab-directly-within-emacs-when-i-already-have-emacs-open -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573