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Thus, if you want to ovverride it, you either have to redefine the configuration option or use an {{{HGEDITOR}}} environment variable ({{{VISUAL}}} and {{{EDITOR}}} will be ignored). Thus, if you want to override it, you either have to redefine the configuration option or use an {{{HGEDITOR}}} environment variable ({{{VISUAL}}} and {{{EDITOR}}} will be ignored).

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

On Windows, the installer places a configuration file inside %programfiles%\Mercurial\hgrc.d\ that contains the editor settings (notepad by default). Thus, if you want to override it, you either have to redefine the configuration option or use an HGEDITOR environment variable (VISUAL and EDITOR will be ignored).

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