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

It wasn't working for me. I run crontab with sudo, so I switched to root, did the above suggestions, and crontab would open in vim, but it still wouldn't from my user account. Finally I ran sudo select-editor from the user account and that did the trick.