On 30.11.2009 07:23, Олег Тазетдинов wrote: >> Steve Borho wrote: >>> I'm looking for feedback about including a small lightweight editor >>> with the TortoiseHg Windows installer that we can set as the default >>> visual editor. The main reason for this is notepad.exe cannot read >>> unix eoln files, and it would be nice if our default editor handled >>> unicode and had at least some simple syntax highlighting. >>> >>> The two obvious candidates are Notepad2 and Notepad++, both are free >>> software. > > I do not think the editor is necessary. > > People who mostly deal with Windows development do not have the problem of > reading unix eoln files, they use Windows eoln and can use any Windows editor > (even notepad that is quite good for small things like a commit message). > > On the other hand people who do development under both Windows and Linux most > likely will use win32text extension to keep their eoln native to the current > OS. That is really how I do it since most of my project have to be portable > across Windows and Unix and that is why I was so glad when eoln handling had > finally been incorporated into both Mercurial and TortoiseHg. > > Personally I use Crimson Editor for small file editing but still the files in > my working directory always have eoln corresponding to the operating system > (thanks again to win32text extension). > > BTW, when I tried to use Crimson Editor for commit message editing when using > CLI under Windows it turned out it's not possible since for some reason > Mercurial could not detect when Crimson Editor process finished so now I am > sticking to Notepad.
notepad++ has the -multiInst option for that last problem you mention. I specified it like this in my personal mercurial.ini: ''' [ui] editor = "C:\path\to\notepad++" -multiInst ''' Maybe Crimson has something similar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list Tortoisehg-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
