how change crontab default editer

[mingx98]

in Solaris 2.6, the default editer of crontab is "ed",
but I found other 2.6 box use vi as crontab editer,
I don't how set my Soalris 2.6 crontab editer to "vi",
in /etc/default/cron and /etc/cron.d, I can't find
any clue ,

Thanks ,Please help

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[MikeHendy]

There are two environment variables that you can use. They are EDITOR and VISUAL. If both are set then VISUAL is used.

eg. in bourne, bash, or ksh:
EDITOR=vi;export EDITOR;

then run crontab with -e option.


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