How can I use vim not vi to write commit message?

Question

When I do hg commit, it use vi as my default editor, how to change it to vim?

Answer 1

From the editor docs:

Mercurial tries to pick which program to call to edit a commit message by trying the following (in order):

1. HGEDITOR environment variable
2. editor configuration option in [ui] section (in hgrc or passed with --config ui.editor command-line option).
3. VISUAL environment variable
4. EDITOR environment variable
5. vi, if none of the above is set

Personally I prefer to just do hg commit -m "My commit message"

Answer 2

Find your .hgrc file in your home directory and add the following line:

editor=vim 

That should do it.

So let's say you use nano for cases like this. Your .hgrc file would read something like:

[ui] username = Bob Jones <[email protected]> editor=nano 

Pretty simple