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Wep5622
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Hello all,

I've always been wondering what that "External Tools" toolbar would be useful for, and now I figured it would be convenient to put several Mercurial commands in there. Mercurial is a concurrent version control system (like Subversion, GIT, CVS, etc), for those who don't know.

For example, I'd like to execute "C:\Program Files\Mercurial\hg.exe add" on a selected file to add it to the repository. Likewise for "delete". I'd also like to have buttons for "synchronize", "commit", etc.

Is this possible at all? If so, how to go about this?

So far, we've been executing our HG-commands from explorers (using TortoiseHG) and from the Windows command line. It would be more convenient to be able to do so from within the Dev Studio IDE though.

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Francis Mariani
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As far as I can tell, the "External Tools" toolbar is ONLY a convenient place to put shortcuts to these tools - you cannot pass a file to the selected external tool. Quite useless.

EditPlus is my preferred programmer's text editor and it can be configured to open selected files in an external tool. From DevStudio, I open two fexes in the Windows default text editor (EditPlus), then in EditPlus I can open these two fexes in Windiff File Compare to compare them.

It would be nice to have this functionality in DevStudio.


Francis


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Wep5622
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Yeah, I usually prefer gVim as my editor, but Dev Studio has a nasty tendency to crash when opening files with an external tool.
In practice I either edit my files outside Dev Studio or I use the (rather limited) built-in editor/tools. I usually end up doing the latter.


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