Salix OS

I am not able to edit crontab jobs with vim.
Neither as user "crontab -e" or as "sudo crontab -e"

After Shift i I can make an input, however, cannot delete the input.
Same after Shift i no delete is possible, for example deleting #
at beginning of a line.

With sudo crontab -e opened in a terminal and all killed by clicking
X in terminal bar vim will keep running in the background using
100 % of CPU.

I double checked in my Salix box and crontab jobs can be edited with vim.

Just a guess: you're using elvis, not vim.

gapan wrote:Just a guess: you're using elvis, not vim.

@Atip: this is the case if you type "vi" in a terminal as in Slint (as in Slackware) /usr/bin/vi is a symlink to /usr/bin/elvis. Then, to start vim just type "vim" instead.

My point is that crontab -e uses the default EDITOR, which happens to be vi, not vim, therefore it is elvis in slint. Either remove elvis and point the symlink to vim, or set the EDITOR variable to whichever editor you want.

It seems my memory is as well becoming impaired.

I should have remembered that it is evil elvis.

Solution as before change symlink @vi to vim.

Thanks for the tip!