How to change default crontab editor

February 1, 2018 at 4:51 pm (last edited October 24, 2018 at 3:17 pm)

Run from a command line:

export EDITOR=/bin/vi
export VISUAL=vi

export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
export VISUAL=vim

export EDITOR=/bin/nano
export VISUAL=nano

2 comments on “How to change default crontab editor”

Michel C says:
October 2, 2020 at 7:39 am
there is also a file setting this (at least on Ubuntu)
“`
cat > $HOME/.selected_editor <<EOF
SELECTED_EDITOR="/usr/local/bin/vim"
EOF
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1. admin says:
  October 5, 2020 at 2:09 pm
  nice, noted_)
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