Is crontab -e the only way to edit crontab? When I tried editing crontab with geany, it does not work.

You can ... Per the man crontab page, if a VISUAL or EDITOR env variable is set, that will be used to edit crontab. So, export VISUAL=/usr/bin/geany then edit crontab with crontab -e /usr/bin/select-editor is a script which pulls the defined editors from update-alternatives. You can add geany to t…

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pavlos_kairis 22 August 2020 01:38 2

Type select-editor and choose the editor you want to use,
then crontab -e will open with that editor. nano is easy.