On 2025-11-07, Greg Wooledge <[email protected]> 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.
