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I always prefer the vi editor. On windows, I would always install the gvim package which also includes vim in DOS. I even set my command prompt mode to vi in bash & ksh.

If you have more 'user friendly editor' such as nano, then you can do the following:

# EDITOR=nano crontab -e

This is assuming that you are using the bash (or korn) shell

Sorry for the late response. You're welcome!

More control can be obtained by using Perl's select statement:

#!/bin/perl

# loop
while () {
system("command");
select(undef, undef, undef, 0.25); ## Pause for 25 miliseconds
}