It appears sudo doesn't source root's preferences. To fix:
First, make sure that vim is set as root's EDITOR by placing this in
/root/.bashrc
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
Now, use the -E switch to tell sudo to use root's environment variables, i.e.
to source /root/.bashrc. So your command should look like this:
sudo -E crontab -e
If you wanted to, you could create an alias in your user's .bashrc
alias sudo="sudo -E"
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sudo crontab -e uses wrong vi version
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/372588
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