Re: "svn commit" and EDITOR=gedit

Kris Deugau wrote:
> Matthieu Moy wrote:
>> The problem is a user who want to use gedit to write commit messages
>> for SVN. The obvious first try is "export EDITOR=gedit", but gedit it
>> too clever for that: if an instance of gedit is already running, then
>> gedit acts as a client, asks the running instance to open the file,
>> _end exits immediately_. svn thinks the user is done with the edition,
>> and complains about an empty commit message.
>>
>> I google'd a bit, but "gedit svn" tells me a lot about the SVN repo
>> for gedit, but much less about solving my problem :-(.
>
> This isn't really a Subversion issue, but I ran into this same problem
> from a different direction.
>
> Change the EDITOR value to "gedit --new-window" to kick gedit into
> opening a new window. man gedit may also show you a more suitable
> option if your user doesn't like that.
That just opens up a new window, and still exits immediately, so the
problem is the same. (at least, on my machine that's what it does).

The 2006 summer of code project SingleInstance seemed to be the right
direction to solve this problem, but it looks like the project stalled
out...

http://live.gnome.org/SingleInstanceApps

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