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Reset visual and editor to use Vim

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Hi,

I ran across a small issue where the client wanted to use vim as the default editor for crontab as opposed to pico. I was able to modify this by using the following commands;

EDITOR=vim;
export EDITOR
VISUAL=vim;
export VISUAL=vim

and done…

Now, when editing crontab, it uses vim. Simple.

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