title: Why cant I use the $SVN_EDITOR environment variable in cygwin?
body: <p>I must be missing something stupid! It works fine when I use the -m option.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ echo $SVN_EDITOR
  emacs
  
  $ svn commit test.py
  svn: Commit failed (details to follow):
  svn: Could not use external editor to fetch log message; consider setting the $SVN_EDITOR envirionment variable or using the --message (-m) or --file (-F) options 
  svn: None of the environment variables SVN_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR are set, and no 'editor-cmd' run-time configuration option was found
  </code></pre>