Hazaa!

It's the simple things in life that really make the day.

Take for instance this idiot's guide to using the OS X vixie cron. What's different about it?

Well, the service is com.vixie.cron, but I don't know that really matters considering you don't need to restart the service if you do this it right.

What really matters is the revelation - the command line text editor.

I've been looking (disappointing I never looked for an existing one) for a command line text editor for OS X. I had rigged up a batch script to open up TextEdit with the 'open' utility but that just doesn't cut it. Open executes and returns a successful exit before TextEdit has even prompted. So in the case of crontab -e (edit your cron jobs), subversion (version control system) and a number of other things expecting a temporary file - they don't think you made one even before you get to the editor.

VIM for MAC wasn't flying so I was left workarounds that didn't work, very annoying.

But the above tutorial points out nano - Nano's ANOther editor, an enhanced free Pico clone - which comes standard with Darwin. Glorious revelation I have a command line text editor. The clouds part and freedom calls, I am free of the VNC. I'm not even usually on OS X anymore, I SSH into it, or would SSH/VNC into before now. I repeat, hazaa.