* crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs
@ 2019-05-12 7:57 Emanuel Berg
2019-05-12 7:59 ` tomas
2019-05-12 11:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2019-05-12 7:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I found the crontab-mode [1] in MELPA...
I know 'crontab -e' looks for the EDITOR env to
get you your favorite editor...
But how on Earth do I edit my (user's) crontab
file _from the Emacs that I already have open_,
24/7/365+ ?
[1] https://github.com/emacs-pe/crontab-mode
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* Re: crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs
2019-05-12 7:57 crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs Emanuel Berg
@ 2019-05-12 7:59 ` tomas
2019-05-12 11:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
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From: tomas @ 2019-05-12 7:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 09:57:46AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> I found the crontab-mode [1] in MELPA...
>
> I know 'crontab -e' looks for the EDITOR env to
> get you your favorite editor...
>
> But how on Earth do I edit my (user's) crontab
> file _from the Emacs that I already have open_,
> 24/7/365+ ?
emacsclient?
Cheers
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* Re: crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs
2019-05-12 7:57 crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs Emanuel Berg
2019-05-12 7:59 ` tomas
@ 2019-05-12 11:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-05-12 11:28 ` Noam Postavsky
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2019-05-12 11:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emanuel Berg; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
On 2019-05-12, at 09:57, Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> wrote:
> I found the crontab-mode [1] in MELPA...
>
> I know 'crontab -e' looks for the EDITOR env to
> get you your favorite editor...
>
> But how on Earth do I edit my (user's) crontab
> file _from the Emacs that I already have open_,
> 24/7/365+ ?
Tramp?
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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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* Re: crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs
2019-05-12 11:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
@ 2019-05-12 11:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-12 13:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-05-13 1:15 ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Noam Postavsky @ 2019-05-12 11:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marcin Borkowski; +Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list, Emanuel Berg
On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 07:26, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>
>
> On 2019-05-12, at 09:57, Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> wrote:
>
> > I found the crontab-mode [1] in MELPA...
> >
> > I know 'crontab -e' looks for the EDITOR env to
> > get you your favorite editor...
> >
> > But how on Earth do I edit my (user's) crontab
> > file _from the Emacs that I already have open_,
> > 24/7/365+ ?
>
> Tramp?
I think the answer here would be to set EDITOR to emacsclient.
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* Re: crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs
2019-05-12 11:28 ` Noam Postavsky
@ 2019-05-12 13:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
2019-05-13 1:15 ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Marcin Borkowski @ 2019-05-12 13:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Noam Postavsky; +Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list, Emanuel Berg
On 2019-05-12, at 13:28, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 07:26, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2019-05-12, at 09:57, Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> wrote:
>>
>> > I found the crontab-mode [1] in MELPA...
>> >
>> > I know 'crontab -e' looks for the EDITOR env to
>> > get you your favorite editor...
>> >
>> > But how on Earth do I edit my (user's) crontab
>> > file _from the Emacs that I already have open_,
>> > 24/7/365+ ?
>>
>> Tramp?
>
> I think the answer here would be to set EDITOR to emacsclient.
Yes, I think I misunderstood Emanuel's problem. Somehow I was thinking
about editing root's crontab.
Best,
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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
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* Re: crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs
2019-05-12 11:28 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-05-12 13:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
@ 2019-05-13 1:15 ` Emanuel Berg
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From: Emanuel Berg @ 2019-05-13 1:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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
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