How do I customize the 'commit message file' generated by `hg commit`?

Question

When I run hg commit, Mercurial generates a file for my commit message that looks like this :

HG: Enter commit message.  Lines beginning with \'         


        

Answer 1

There are many ways to do this. Some are even listed on the official wiki. This expands on @Ry4an answer. You can add this to your ~/.hgrc

[ui]
editor = function hgvi { hg status --unknown | sed 's/^/HG: /g' >> "$1"; vi "$1"; }; hgvi