Can't edit commit message by pressing m in 'crecord' interactive mode

Nathan Goldbaum nathan12343 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 21:06:05 UTC 2017


It may be the case that this is a bug. If you can make a test script
demonstrating the behavior then you should file a bug on mercurial's
bugzilla.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 4:02 PM Becker, Mischa J <mischa.becker at kroger.com>
wrote:

> On 2017-08-24 12:16, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> > On 24/08/17 10:37, Peter Vitt wrote:
> >> On 2017-08-24 17:04, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
> >>> On 23/08/17 09:01, Peter Vitt wrote:
> >>>> Is this caused by call `hg ci -i` instead of some other command? If
> >>>> so, what other command has to be called to be able to edit the
> >>>> commit message throughout un-/checking hunks?
> >>>
> >>> I do not have an answer to your question, but I can suggest using “hg
> >>> commit --amend” if you are looking to edit the commit message of the
> >>> working directory parent.
> >>
> >> Thanks, but that's not what I'm looking for. I want to edit the commit
> >> message while I'm still de-/selecting hunks to be checked in.
> > Why don't you simply use the editor that “hg commit” will automatically
> > launch to input your commit message?
>
> He does want to use the editor. The problem is it isn't running whenever
> he calls it like it used to.  He wants to edit the commit message as he
> makes the decisions on which hunks are being checked in.
>
> I do the exact same thing but I'm using TortoiseHg not the command line
> and "Use TortoiseHg" is probably not the help he's looking for.
>
> Mischa
>
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