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46 46 other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.</p>
47 47
48 48 <h1>Configuration notes</h1>
49 <p>The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set the EDITOR
49 <h4>Default editor</h4>
50 The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set the EDITOR
50 51 (or HGEDITOR) environment variable to specify your preference or set it in
51 mercurial.ini:</p>
52 mercurial.ini:
52 53 <pre>
53 54 [ui]
54 55 editor = whatever
55 56 </pre>
56 57
58 <h4>Configuring a Merge program</h4>
59 It should be emphasized that Mercurial by itself doesn't attempt to do a
60 Merge at the file level, neither does it make any attempt to Resolve the conflicts.
61
62 By default, Mercurial will use the merge program defined by the HGMERGE environment
63 variable, or uses the one defined in the mercurial.ini file. (see <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/MergeProgram">MergeProgram</a> on the Mercurial Wiki for more information)
57 64
58 65 <h1>Reporting problems</h1>
59 66
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