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Old 14th February 2018
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Default Editor for crontab?

I would like to set vim as the editor for `crontab -e`, and per the man page I have tried setting EDITOR and/or VISUAL in ~/.profile. This works fine; however, I do not want either of these parameters to take effect for the ksh command-line editing mode. Is there a way to use vim _only_ for crontab?
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Hello and welcome!

Consider using your shell and its alias facility. For example, something like this:

$ alias crontab='env EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/vim /usr/bin/crontab'

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I have tried setting EDITOR and/or VISUAL in ~/.profile. This works fine; however, I do not want either of these parameters to take effect for the ksh command-line editing mode
Add this line to ~/.profile (if it does not already exist):
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export ENV="${HOME}/.kshrc"
Then add this line to ~/.kshrc:
Code:
set -o emacs
This will allow you to set VISUAL to vim but keep ksh's stock editing mode.
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Very nice, thank you both!
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