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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
	Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>
Subject: Re: crontab from Emacs not only with Emacs
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 15:25:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1evkdoh.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM-tV-80g2kpvToYubSXn7dBRthTOsnA-7FCPrJS4HCbBegRYg@mail.gmail.com>


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,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-12 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2019-05-12 13:25     ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2019-05-13  1:15     ` Emanuel Berg

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