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doc: make it easier to read how to enable extensions We tell people all the time that enabling extensions is not a scary thing to do, but we don't make it easy enough for an absolute novice to do so. When they see a suggestion to do "hg extfoo bar", the error message tells them "see hg help extensions", but that help page doesn't actually tell them where configuration files are. Furthermore, the big warning about why extensions aren't enabled by default should be pushed down a little bit. Most of the extensions shipped by hg are not all that scary, and some very basic and useful cosmetic extensions like graphlog, color, pager, and progress, should be enabled for many hg users.

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Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of
files.
Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by a prefix,
'set:'. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined
by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping.
Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted with single
or double quotes if they contain characters outside of
``[.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff]`` or if they match one of the
predefined predicates. This generally applies to file patterns other
than globs and arguments for predicates.
Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them,
e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being
interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``.
There is a single prefix operator:
``not x``
Files not in x. Short form is ``! x``.
These are the supported infix operators:
``x and y``
The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``.
``x or y``
The union of files in x and y. There are two alternative short
forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``.
``x - y``
Files in x but not in y.
The following predicates are supported:
.. predicatesmarker
Some sample queries:
- Show status of files that appear to be binary in the working directory::
hg status -A "set:binary()"
- Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already tracked::
hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()"
- Find text files that contain a string::
hg locate "set:grep(magic) and not binary()"
- Find C files in a non-standard encoding::
hg locate "set:**.c and not encoding('UTF-8')"
- Revert copies of large binary files::
hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')"
- Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a or b::
hg remove "set: 'listfile:foo.lst' and (**a* or **b*)"
See also :hg:`help patterns`.