"Subversion" : how to make it use nano instead of vi for commits ?

Vincent Trouilliez vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr
Thu Apr 6 21:02:16 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:47 +0100, Dick Davies wrote:
> On 06/04/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> 
> > I tried setting the "EDITOR" environnement variable, but it didn't do
> > the trick sadly, so I guess svn is not looking at this variable.
> 
> try
>   $SVN_EDITOR

Hi Dick,

As I mentionned in a previous mail (maybe you didn't see it), I found
the solution in the subversion reference manual.
The proper solution is the svn config file which is at:
~/.subversion/config

The relevant option is called "editor-cmd=<editor name>"

It all works well now :o)


--
Vince





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