Not a problem in either crontab or Vim. In order to use gvim in such situations you have to make sure that gvim does not fork and detach from the shell. Try: EDITOR=gvim\ -f crontab -e
-- "crontab -e" is not working with gvim https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511296 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs