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In bash, I can do EDITOR=vim crontab -e. Can I get similar effect in Fish shell?

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begin; set -lx EDITOR vim; crontab -e; end
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is there any easier way to do this? – Milovan Zogovic Oct 29 '12 at 8:43
oddly, this doesn't work for me. I'm calling a ruby script, and ENV doesn't pick up the variable I'm setting: set -lx date '12/04/2012' – Duke Dec 7 '12 at 23:13
@Duke: It works for me. begin; set -lx date '12/04/2012'; ruby -e 'puts ENV["date"]'; end – Dennis Williamson Dec 8 '12 at 0:49
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Don't see why this shouldn't work: env EDITOR=vim crontab -e
That bypasses the shell completely.

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