How to specify a editor to open crontab file? “export EDITOR=vi” does not work

Question

I\'m using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and I want to set the vim editor to edit the crontab file.

If I run echo $EDITOR, I get vim. But when I run c

Answer 1

You can use below command to open it in VIM editor.

export VISUAL=vim; crontab -e

Note: Please make sure VIM editor is installed on your server.