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Nothing I could do persuaded the editor to work in vi, even though the asterisked value was already option 2. So I un-installed nano. That worked.

[b]How to change crontab editor in Debian Linux - using update-alternatives[/b]

[code]$ sudo update-alternatives --config editor
There are 3 choices for the alternative editor (providing /usr/bin/editor).

Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /bin/nano 40 auto mode
1 /bin/nano 40 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/vim.basic 30 manual mode
3 /usr/bin/vim.tiny 10 manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 3
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/vim.tiny to provide /usr/bin/editor (editor) in manual mode[/code]