As I use Notepad++ for almost all code editing these days, it was something of a revelation that there is a plugin to enable svn commits from within this excellent editor.
See http://www.switchonthecode.com/tech-news/notepadplusplus-subversion-plugin
You can download the plugin from: http://www.switchonthecode.com/sites/default/files/319/source/NPPSvn_v1.2.zip
