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Running man crontab will tell you that running crontab -e will fire up an editor and let you edit your account's crontab file. Unfortunately, it seems to always default to vi. That editor is not friendly to me in the least.

Fortunately it is easy to change the editor that crontab uses. Simply type export EDITOR=pico to use the simple pico editor, or replace pico with your favorite text-mode text editor.