How to set an hgrc key to a value spanning multiple lines

Didly didlybom at gmail.com
Tue Jan 17 15:02:51 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:35 PM, Michał Sznajder
<michalsznajder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Angel Ezquerra Moreu
> <angel.ezquerra at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a way to set a key in an hgrc file that spans multiple lines?
>> I am working on an extension whose configuration setting a key to a
>> value that spans more than one line, and I don't know if that is even
>> possible.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
>  According to http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html:
>
>    Each line contains one entry. If the lines that follow are indented,
>    they are treated as continuations of that entry. Leading  whitespace
>    is removed from values. Empty lines are skipped. Lines beginning
>    with # or ; are ignored and may be used to provide comments.
>
> Though I do not recall any config entry of this type.
>
> Michal

Thank you Michal!

I tried and it works great!

Cheers,

Angel



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