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

This worked for me :

EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"
export EDITOR

Add this to ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc to enable this for current user.