Re: trixie and "crontab -e"

["D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com>]

D. R. Evans wrote on 11/7/25 11:39 AM:
> The Wanderer wrote on 11/7/25 10:13 AM:
>
> > FWIW,
> >
> > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/798563/how-to-stop-kate-forking-itself
> >
> > suggests that 'kate -b' (if specified in the VISUAL variable, and
> > possibly other places depending on exactly where you need kate to be
> > invoked from) should produce the behavior you were apparently wanting.
>
> I had looked at "kate -b" before I posted here. The documentation says: "If
> using an already running Kate instance, block until it exits, if URLs given to
> open". I read that and thought, "Well that's irrelevant, since I won't be
> using an already-running instance; I'll be starting a new instance". But
> perhaps it means something different from the way I'm reading it.

Apparently, those words in the documentation do mean something different from 
my interpretation of what they're saying.

I tried: "export VISUAL="/usr/bin/kate -b"' in .bashrc, and it seemed to do 
more-or-less the right thing.

A bit of experimenting further, and it appears that
  VISUAL="/usr/bin/kate -b -n"
recovers the manner of operation that I'm used to with "crontab -e".

Thank you very much for the suggestion.

  Doc

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