I would like to use nano when I type crontab -e in the terminal. How can I do this? I am totally new to opensuse. Thanks!!
Assuming you already have ‘nano’ installed, you just need to export an
EDITOR environment variable to be whatever:
export EDITOR=$(which nano)
Try out ‘crontab -e’ and make sure it’s what you want.
Now that it’s working, put that line in your ~/.bashrc file so that the
change is permanent for your user specifically, then logout/login or
restart your terminal to apply the change:
echo "export EDITOR=\$(which nano)" >> ~/.bashrc
You could also start a new ‘bash’ session from wherever you are to see the
change (‘bash’ followed by [Enter]).
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Good luck.
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Assuming you already have ‘nano’ installed, you just need to export an
EDITOR environment variable to be whatever:
export EDITOR=$(which nano)
Try out ‘crontab -e’ and make sure it’s what you want.
Now that it’s working, put that line in your ~/.bashrc file so that the
change is permanent for your user specifically, then logout/login or
restart your terminal to apply the change:
echo "export EDITOR=\$(which nano)" >> ~/.bashrc
You could also start a new ‘bash’ session from wherever you are to see the
change (‘bash’ followed by [Enter]).
–
Good luck.
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show your appreciation and click on the star below…