Re: How to edit crontab using emacs over ssh

[Richard Riley]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> 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.

create the crontab on the remote machine, open it using tramp from your
machine, edit and save and then reinstall it. That or simply enable x
forwarding so running emacs on the remote bring up emacs gtk/x on your
main machine editing your cron file on the remote.


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