Re: cron on 10.5.2 server

On 2008-05-03 20:59:36 +0100, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> In article <fngp141q20vat9lmk1hf0bcj773rgl75bl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 03 May 2008 14:40:19 -0500, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> UWhat you apparently don't realize is the 'edit' command-line tool
*is*
>>> part of TextWrangler.  So it will naturally open TextWrangler when you
>>> issue it.  ; )
>>> 
>>> If you want to use the 'pico' command-line tool to edit these files
>>> instead, then all you need to do is:
>>> 
>>> pico .bashrc
>>> pico .bash_profile
>>> 
>>> If you wanted to use vi to edit them, you'd:
>>> 
>>> vi .bashrc
>>> vi .bash_profile
>>> 
>>> Make sense?
>> 
>> Yes.   But I thought there was a Unix setting to define the default
>> editor, and the command to invoke the default editor was "edit".   I
>> guess I was wrong.
> 
> The Unix default editor is used for things where an editor is launched
> automatically, such as when you type 'crontab -e', for instance.

The key word here is "automatically".

Manually, you can run anything you want.

Cheers,

Chris