Question

So my co-worker felt it necessary to go onto my development box and do some code changes, then submit his work to subversion. I never set the commit message editor, and all of a sudden, one day I forgot to add the -m handle and apparently he set the default editor to emacs.

Being that I don’t know the first thing about emacs and prefer vim myself, how do I go about changing the default editor for SVN commands to vim after it’s already been set? I deleted the .subversion directory under the home directory, and it still prompts me.

Answer 1

Update your SVN_EDITOR environment variable. You can try

echo $SVN_EDITOR

to see if this is set to something else in your shell – in which case you might want to take a look at your .bashrc (or similar) file.