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 crontab -e, I get different editor.
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Very probable that your
VISUALenvironment variable is set to something else. Try: