Change SVN message editor

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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.

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On Ubuntu, default editor for Subversion commit messages can be also changed by selecting default general command line text editor as described here: https://askubuntu.com/a/615181

sudo update-alternatives --config editor

  Selection    Path                Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /bin/nano            40        auto mode
  1            /bin/ed             -100       manual mode
  2            /bin/nano            40        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/vim.basic   30        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/vim.tiny    10        manual mode
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