Thanks for the suggestion.
I looked at strace, but couldn't see any obvious cause (no EPERM for example). I set up a new user where it all worked properly, so I started to try and find a difference, and realised that my normal userid uses gvim (echo $EDITOR --> gvim) while my new test user uses vim. So to make the straces comparable I switched to using vim for this task, but using vim I find works fine anyway. I don't really need to find out why gvim doesn't work since I have a good work-around, i.e. preface the pass edit command with EDITOR=vim.
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