Re: How to edit crontab using emacs over ssh

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.2926.1225894506.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Ruohao Li <mouse.emacs@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm in shell mode, logged in on another machine over ssh, and I want to
> do some 'crontab -e' editing on that machine. But that will bring up a
> new editor, which is whatever you set in your EDITOR env variable, and
> both vi and emacs cannot be used in this dumb shell. How can I edit the
> crontab in my emacs session?

Set EDITOR on the remove system to a line editor instead of a visual 
editor, e.g. ed or ex.

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