Any way to prevent Evolve's `metaedit` from opening the message?
Faheem Mitha
faheem at faheem.info
Sat Apr 8 06:13:46 UTC 2023
Hi Anton Shestakov,
On Fri, 7 Apr 2023, Anton Shestakov wrote:
> Yeah, I think metaedit was created as an ad-hoc solution to edit commit
> messages, and then grew some flags for user and date, and even --fold for
> some reason. Internally it can prevent editor from opening (e.g. when -m or
> -l is present), but there's no way to do it from CLI. It's not a very
> well-designed command IMO.
>
> Anyway, to disable editor try `HGEDITOR=true hg metaedit ...`.
That works for me. But where is this documented?
`hg environment` only says:
HGEDITOR
This is the name of the editor to run when committing. See EDITOR.
(deprecated, see 'hg help config.ui.editor')
Regards, Faheem Mitha
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