Mercurial backend for emacs

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-06-20 13:44, Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 05:27:01PM +0200, Ivan Kanis wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have written a backend of mercurial for emacs. It is called vc-hg.el
> > and has been added in CVS emacs yesterday.
> >
> > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/lisp/vc-hg.el?root=emacs&view=log
> >
> > I hope it will be useful, please note that I do not have time to
> > maintain it. Patches and enhancements should be sent to the Free
> > Software Foundation.
>
> Umm.. so how does this compare with mercurial.el in Mercurial's
> contrib/ directory?

I haven't had a chance to test vc-hg.el yet, but from my experience as
an Emacs user, one of the most amazing things about integration with the
VC engine of Emacs is that the same key bindings work for any sort of
underlying SCM.

    C-x v i                        ;add to repository
    C-x v =                        ;diff with repository
    etc.

Being able to re-use vc-cvs and vc-svn experience that is now
`hardcoded' in the fingers of people who are familiar with VC is going
to be great :)