Getting mercurial "hg commit" to work with Notepad++

Question

I just replaced notepad with notepad++ using NotepadReplacer and now my hg commit isn't working correctly.

Before replacing Notepad, hg commit would launch a new text file for me to enter my commit message into. With Notepad++, I'm prompted to create the file, and mercurial aborts the commit because of an empty commit message.

I know I can enter the message inline with the hg commit with the -m option, but I'd like to have the option of entering the commit message in the text file. I like having the status displayed in the text file as context for the commit message without having to type hg stat before hg commit.

How can I get this to work?

Answer 1

Try placing in your %USERPROFILE%\.hgrc (or %USERPROFILE%\mercurial.ini) something along the lines of:

[ui]
editor = path/to/notepad++ -multiInst -nosession

Perhaps adding a -notabbar after -nosession could prove useful, too.