export EDITOR="emacsclient -c -a emacs" doesn’t work

[Pankaj Jangid]

I have ‘emacsclient’ and ‘emacs’ in PATH. I prepend the location of
these two binaries to the PATH environment variable before exporting
EDITOR environment variable. Like this in my ~/.bash_profile.

export 
PATH=~/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS:~/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin:$PATH
export EDITOR="emacsclient -c -a emacs"

Both the commands are working fine in my shell. i.e. I can run ‘emacs’
as well as ‘emacsclient -c -a emacs’ from shell.

But whenever I run any other utility, which is dependent on $EDITOR, I
get this error,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ crontab -e
crontab: emacsclient -c -a emacs: No such file or directory
crontab: "emacsclient -c -a emacs" exited with status 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

What am I missing here?

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Regards,
Pankaj Jangid