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Alberto's Emacs interface for Mercurial (Hg)
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aHg: An Emacs front-end for the Mercurial SCM
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:Author: Alberto Griggio
:Contact: agriggio@users.sourceforge.net

Description
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aHg is a simple Emacs_ front-end for the Mercurial_ (Hg) Distributed Source
Control Management (SCM) system.

Its aims are simplicity and ease of use. It was inspired by DVC_, but it
focuses exclusively on Mercurial instead of supporting multiple Distributed
SCMs.

For a list of features, see the `Quick Guide`_ section below.

.. _Emacs: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
.. _Mercurial: http://selenic.com/mercurial/
.. _DVC: http://www.xsteve.at/prg/emacs_dvc/dvc.html

Download
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An hg repository can be found at http://bitbucket.org/agriggio/ahg/

Requirements
------------

- Emacs version 22 or higher
- Mercurial version 1.0 or higher (it might work with older versions, but I
haven't tested it)

Installation
------------

Put ``ahg.el`` in a directory where Emacs can find it (e.g. in
``/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp``). Alternatively, you can explicitly add the
directory of ``ahg.el`` to Emacs' ``load-path``, by adding this to your
``.emacs`` file::

(setq load-path (cons "/dir/of/ahg/" load-path))

Then, simply add this to your ``.emacs``::

(require 'ahg)

Quick Guide
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After the installation, an ``aHg`` menu appears as a child of the standard
``Tools`` menu of Emacs. The available commands are:

Status:
Shows the status of the current working directory, much like the
``cvs-examine`` command of PCL-CVS.

Log Summary:
Shows a table with a short change history of the current working
directory.

Detailed Log:
Shows a more detailed change history of the current working directory.

Commit Current File:
Commits the file you are currently visiting.

View Changes of Current File:
Displays changes of current file wrt. the tip of the repository.

Mercurial Queues:
Support for basic commands of the mq extension.

Execute Hg Command:
Lets you execute an arbitrary hg command. The focus goes to the minibuffer,
where you can enter the command to execute. You don't have to type ``hg``,
as this is implicit. For example, to execute ``hg outgoing``, simply enter
``outgoing``. Pressing ``TAB`` completes the current command or file name.

Help on Hg Command:
Shows help on a given hg command (again, use ``TAB`` to complete partial
command names).

aHg buffers
~~~~~~~~~~~

The ``Status``, ``Log Summary``, ``Detailed Log`` and the ``List of MQ
Patches`` commands display their results on special buffers. Each of these has
its own menu, with further available commands.

Customization
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There are some options that you can customize (e.g. global keybindings or
fonts). To do so, use ``M-x customize-group RET ahg``.

License
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The program is released under the `GNU GPL`__ License.

__ http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html