diff --git a/edit-options.sh b/edit-options.sh
index 7316127..030b06a 100755
--- a/edit-options.sh
+++ b/edit-options.sh
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
 SCRIPT_NAME="edit-options.sh"
 SCRIPT_VERSION="20230120"
 OPTIONS_FILE="8821cu.conf"
-DEFAULT_EDITOR="$(<default-editor.txt)"
-EDITORS_SEARCH=("${VISUAL}" "${EDITOR}" "${DEFAULT_EDITOR}" "vi")
+DEFAULT_EDITOR="$(cat default-editor.txt)"
 
 if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]
 then
@@ -37,13 +36,9 @@ then
 fi
 
 # Try to find the user's default text editor through the EDITORS_SEARCH array
-for editor in ${EDITORS_SEARCH[@]}
+for TEXT_EDITOR in "${VISUAL}" "${EDITOR}" "${DEFAULT_EDITOR}" vi;
 do
-        if command -v "${editor}" >/dev/null 2>&1
-        then
-                TEXT_EDITOR="${editor}"
-                break
-        fi
+        command -v "${TEXT_EDITOR}" >/dev/null 2>&1 && break
 done
 
 # Fail if no editor was found
diff --git a/install-driver.sh b/install-driver.sh
index dca23a6..a2c551b 100755
--- a/install-driver.sh
+++ b/install-driver.sh
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS_FILE="${MODULE_NAME}.conf"
 
 SMEM=$(LANG=C free | awk '/Mem:/ { print $2 }')
 sproc=$(nproc)
-DEFAULT_EDITOR="$(<default-editor.txt)"
-EDITORS_SEARCH=("${VISUAL}" "${EDITOR}" "${DEFAULT_EDITOR}" "vi")
+DEFAULT_EDITOR="$(cat default-editor.txt)"
 
 # check to ensure sudo was used
 if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]
@@ -99,13 +98,9 @@ then
 fi
 
 # Try to find the user's default text editor through the EDITORS_SEARCH array
-for editor in ${EDITORS_SEARCH[@]}
+for TEXT_EDITOR in "${VISUAL}" "${EDITOR}" "${DEFAULT_EDITOR}" vi;
 do
-	if command -v "${editor}" >/dev/null 2>&1
-	then
-		TEXT_EDITOR="${editor}"
-		break
-	fi
+	command -v "${TEXT_EDITOR}" >/dev/null 2>&1 && break
 done
 
 # Fail if no editor was found