how to change the default editor for crontab

Hello,

When I run crontab -e I get pico not found. I'd actually like to use vim. My shell is bash, so I added EDITOR=vim; export EDITOR to ~/.bashrc. Now when I login, $EDITOR contains vim, but crontab is still looking for pico.

Any idea what I've missed?

Thanks for any help.

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Cole

 

Hi,

Thanks for the tip. Would the same technique allow me to use vim instead of pico?

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Cole

 

solved

Hello,

Appearently crontab uses $VISUAL environment variable. So I added the following to my ~/.bashrc:
export EDITOR="vim"
export VISUAL="vim"

Thanks for the feed back.

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Cole