Hi, On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 06:12:02AM +0800, Marcus Park wrote: > either $EDITOR or $VISUAL in my system is empty. > > And /usr/bin/editor points to nano.
Well, I do not really understand what is going on then as you are definitely running an editor that looks at vim config files, and nano won't do that. I assume you are looking at the environment of the same user that is executing "crontab -e"? When the editor from "crontab -e" is running, you could go into another terminal and look at all your processes to see which actual binary is being called. IIRC, vim when invoked as vi, acts in vi compat mode and that may be why it can't parse its own system config. Although still it is a mystery to me why you do not get nano. I just ran crontab -e as a fresh user and it actually invoked /usr/bin/sensible-editor and asked me which editor I wanted to use (now and in future). So perhaps the man page for crontab is out of date. It seems that sensible-editor records this choice in ~/.selected_editor. Is this what got called for you? If so, apparently running "select-editor" will change the choice. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
