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       other Mercurial commands should work fine for you.</p>
 
     <h1>Configuration notes</h1>
-    <p>The default editor for commit messages is 'vi'. You can set the EDITOR
+    <p>The default editor for commit messages is 'notepad'. You can set the EDITOR
     (or HGEDITOR) environment variable to specify your preference or set it in
     mercurial.ini:</p>
     <pre>