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Asked: 2026-05-19T06:31:52+00:00

I just installed svn client from tigris and from the command line I can

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I just installed svn client from tigris and from the command line I can do checkouts, commits merges etc.
But now I would like to use emacs for merging files or directories.
vc-merge only works when you’re in a file. I can’t get it to work on a directory.
There is also the command line utility and for that I would like to use the same emacs session I’m using for my (dos) shell.

From the documentation I found I need to set SVN_EDITOR to:
gnuclient, emacsclient but that doesnt work either (hitting ‘e’ after finding conflicts reports emacsclient/gnuclient is not recognized as external editor). Putting c:\programs\emacs-23.3\bin\runemacs.exe starts a whole new emacs frame, and it doesn’t show me the nice diff screen with the two conflicting files, I remember seeing when working with cvs and emacs.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t use the same OS as you do, but for the SVN_EDITOR part, I think what you want is emacsclientw and not emacsclient, take a look at the binaries in c:\programs\emacs-23.3\bin\. You also probably need an emacs started in server mode, the function is named server-start.

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