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TASK DESCRIPTION The script tests in pywikibot won't all work if the editor variable in the user-config.py is set. For example editarticle.py executes the editor I configured there. The script tests set the environment variable `EDITOR`, but that doesn't work as user-config.py is overriding it.

The workaround is to use something like `editor = os.environ.get('EDITOR', 'vim')` in the user-config.py, but this needs to be done by all testers manually. And if `EDITOR` is already set on the system, this won't make it possible to change that setting.

Somehow the script tests need to tell the called instance that this is a test (e.g. `PYWIKIBOT2_TEST=1` ?) or we support multiple `-dir:…` parameters (although more in the style that `-dir` is defined once and there are additionally multiple `-config` parameters) and it's using the default config and then adds a test specific config which then overwrites those values which need to be set to a specific value. But then we need to add support for multiple directories and probably also support for "use default".

TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75868

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