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setting editor for crontab -e , why always using basic vim?

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When issuing crontab -e as root , i always got messages like the following (partial) , however , executing vim directly doesn't have problems at all.
$EDITOR was set to vim in /root/.bash_profile already.

%> sudo crontab -e

Error detected while processing /root/.vimrc:

line    2:

E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: autocmd! BufNewFile * silent! 0r ~/.vim/skel/tmpl.%:e

line   20:

E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: autocmd VimEnter * set vb t_vb=

line   57:

E518: Unknown option: autochdir

line   65:

E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: syn on

line   78:

E538: No mouse support: mouse=a

line   79:

E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: filetype plugin indent on

line   87:

E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: funct! CommentBlock(comment)

line   88: