Question

I’m working in a project
I used to do things like:

hg grep TODO

to find stuff that needs fixing for example.
But now I have included source code from other projects and
hg grep TODO becomes useless because of the existence of TODO’s in the added source code projects which is not mine. Now I can add an parameter –exclude=frameworks to the command but
typing that each time is annoying…

Answer 1

The alias section of hgrc is suited for this. You could add this to your local .hgrc or if this is relevant for just this repository, to your .hg/hgrc:

[alias]
xgrep = grep --exclude=frameworks