I feel like a dolt.
Please don't! This is a complicated process, and it takes everybody a while to get their system set up successfully.
#3 - Myrna commented "and that you've got an environment variable $SVN_EDITOR set to some editor accessible on your PATH. (to vi, for example)."
FWIW, I don't do this part. Instead, I *always* prepare commit messages ahead of time in simple text files, and then when I commit I use the "--file" argument to pass my file to subversion. This way you can use whatever editor you want, without having to figure out how to integrate it with subversion. There are many roads to Rome, and I don't think you *have* to have your environment be identical to somebody else's. The important part is that you understand how your environment works, and you can do the necessary tasks successfully. thanks, bryan
