I believe that this is because crontab is using /usr/bin/editor, rather than 
/usr/bin/sensible-editor, as suggested by Debian policy, section 11.4 of:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html

I have filed a bug and submitted a patch upstream as well:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482284

In the mean time, I have test packages for Hardy in my PPA:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~kirkland/+archive

I will attach a patch in my next post for Intrepid.

:-Dustin

** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (kamion)
       Status: New => In Progress

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crontab not observing EDITOR or VISUAL
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