On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Martin Kühl wrote:
The `mate` utility exits before you could save your document. This is as designed, you can set SVN_EDITOR to `mate --wait` and it should work.
You can also create a symbolic link to the `mate` command called `mate_wait` and it will run with as though you added the `--wait` by default. (You would then set your SVN_EDITOR to `mate_wait`.) This is useful for situations where whitespace is undesirable in environment variables.