hg commit doesn't respect EDITOR

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Jun 1 05:28:43 UTC 2005


On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:33:02PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:09:19PM -0400, Kevin Smith wrote:
> > I exported EDITOR (my preferred console editor is nano), but hg still 
> > brought up vim. I had to export HGEDITOR before my choice was respected.
> 
> Eek. Haven't run into that. Must have broken that rather recently.

Can you double-check this? I can't reproduce this here. The relevant
source line is:

        editor = os.environ.get("HGEDITOR") or os.environ.get("EDITOR", "vi")

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