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...ibutions may have defined sets of packages deemed 'essential', editors do not seem to be part of that here. Anyway, when you are calling edit(), or call a function calling edit() you can always override appropriately with both an environment variable or an R option so this all seems like a nothingburger to me. "If on systems that don't have all tools, maybe don't call functions from package `usethis`" (which makes reasonable assumptions about what could be present) also seems like a valid strategy. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

Thanks Simon, I didn't know that! That's definitely a compelling reason to leave the current default untouched and to eschew any finicky attempts to find back-up editors. Still, I think there is benefit from checking quickly that 'editor' exists at run-time in file.edit() -- the current failure mode is unusual (a shell error & R warning). Offering an R error would also