sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mate /usr/bin/mate_wait export EDITOR="mate_wait" "mate_wait" does not need a "-w" I had a problem recently where crontab -e didn't like m

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mate /usr/bin/mate_wait export EDITOR="mate_wait" "mate_wait" does not need a "-w" I had a problem recently where crontab -e didn't like mate. mate_wait seems to work as an EDITOR value everywhere.