Why I've got no crontab entry on OS X when using vim?

Question

I would like to use cron on my Mac. I choose it over launchd, because I want to be able to use my new knowledge on Linux as well. However, I cannot seem to get

Answer 1

The above has a mix of correct answers. What worked for me for having the exact same errors are:

1) edit your bash config file

$ cd ~ && vim .bashrc

2) in your bash config file, make sure default editor is vim rather than vi (which causes the problem)

export EDITOR=vim

3) edit your vim config file

$cd ~ && vim .vimrc

4) make sure set backupcopy is yes in your .vimrc

set backupcopy=yes

5) restart terminal

6) now try crontab edit

$ crontab -e

10 * * * * echo "hello world"

You should see that it creates the crontab file correctly. If you exit vim (either ZZ or :wq) and list crontab with following command; you should see the new cron job. Hope this helps.

$ crontab -l