Hi,
In slackware, crontab is using elvis as the editor instead of vim and I can't make heads or tails out of it.
Does anybody know how to change this from elvis to vim or better yet to a more
user friendly editor?
I don't know about Slackware specifically, but the usual way applications get the identity of your editor is from an environment variable called (duh) "EDITOR". Check your setting for this with the "env" command. If you need to change it, do so in any convenient config script (e.g., .bashrc) the usual way. User friendliness is, to a degree, in the eye of the user, so I don't really know what you have in mind, but a wide range of editors can work this way.
You might also want to check what "vi" on your system is a symlink to. I seem to recall that Slackware, way back when (I probably quit using Slackware 8 years ago, around the time of 4.0), used elvis as its stock vi replacement. You can make any other vi-like app "your" vi simply by changing this symlink. (I did this on my Debian systems, replacing the annoying, at least to me, nvi with vim. The Debian setup is a bit more involved than what I described here, so it is possible you will find that Slack too has become more tangled than it once was, perhaps requiring you to follow a string os symlinks instead of the single layer I described.)
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