Re: trixie and "crontab -e"
On 2025-11-07, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 08:37:59 -0700, D. R. Evans wrote:
>> [ZB:~] export VISUAL=/usr/bin/kate
>> [ZB:~] crontab -e
>>
>> Then I get the immediate "No modification made" message,
>
> I'm not familiar with this editor. What I'm *guessing* is that
> /usr/bin/kate is a "client" and it communicates with some kind of
It's a GUI editor and forks into the background after launch.
Maybe 'EDITOR="kate --wait" crontab -e' would work.
They refactored kate in KDE Gear 23.08 and later, apparently.
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