At some point my Ubuntu installation's crontab decided to use nano as its default editor, despite my having switched it to emacs.
Upon using crontab -e, I get dropped into nano. On completion of the edit, the shell reports: "/usr/bin/sensible-editor: 25: /usr/bin/emacs22: not found".
Looks like my emac was recently upgraded to emacs23, but I could not find a way to edit the sensible-editor script. Using the default Debian update-alternatives --config editor command did not fix the problem.
#114: Set Ubuntu crontab default editor
Solved!on April 15, 2011, 11:04 AM UTC — from 
yliu ( 4,414 views )
yliu ( 4,414 views )
Setting Ubuntu's default sensible-editor
- yliu on April 15, 2011, 11:04 AM UTC
Turns out there is another tool in Ubuntu used to set the sensible-editor. In particular:
will change the editor being used by sensible-editor, and by extension, the crontab -e invocation.
Not sure what the relationship is between the Debian Alternatives system and this select-editor util. I'm learning something new every day with these newfangled distros :p
sudo /usr/bin/select-editorwill change the editor being used by sensible-editor, and by extension, the crontab -e invocation.
Not sure what the relationship is between the Debian Alternatives system and this select-editor util. I'm learning something new every day with these newfangled distros :p