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Mercurial tries to pick which program to call to edit a commit message by trying the following (in order):

  1. HGEDITOR environment variable

  2. editor configuration option in [ui] section (in hgrc or passed with --config ui.editor command-line option).

  3. VISUAL environment variable

  4. EDITOR environment variable

  5. vi, if none of the above is set

See also

editor (last edited 2015-11-11 09:07:17 by SashaUnknown)