HOWTO Edit your crontab with Emacs
Another ”wee” tip. I had a hard time doing this right… Put emacs in the EDITOR shell variable: $ EDITOR=emacs $ export EDITOR and add the following to your ~/.emacs: (set ‘temporary-file-directory ”/tmp”) Now, edit the crontab file via: $ crontab -e Edit and save the file, and you should get a response from crontab: […]