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Re: Error "Could not start diff viewer!" when editing Subversion configuration files

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:06:31 +0100

Ben Voris wrote:
> When I open TortoiseSVN Settings and press the Edit button for
> Subversion configuration files, I get the error:
>
> Could not start diff viewer!
> The system cannot find the path specified.

Fixed the error message to "could not start text viewer" in revision 12174.

> Also, is there any way to control what program is run when the [Edit]
> button does work? If possible, I'd rather not use Notepad.
>
> Any ideas?

it's the default text viewer that gets started (the one associated with
*.txt files). If that association is not registered properly, you'll get
the error you mentioned.

Stefan

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