UltraEdit, UltraCompare, Tortoisehg and Linux

I recently purchased the UltraEdit / UltraCompare bundle from IDM Computer Solutions, Inc.  After some difficulty getting mercurial & tortoisehg  to play nice with UltraEdit and UltraCompare, I decided to make a post on how to accomplish this.

I created a bin directory under my home directory and extracted the UltraEdit and UltraCompare tarballs there.

mkdir /home/cmartin/bin

tar zxvf UltraEdit.tar.gz

tar zxvf UltraCompare.tar.gz

Next, I made soft links to the actual executables in the ~/bin directory as shown below:

ln -s /home/cmartin/bin/ucx/bin/ucx /home/cmartin/bin/ucx.app

ln -s /home/cmartin/bin/uex/bin/uex /home/cmartin/bin/uex.app

Once these tasks were completed, I edited my .hgrc file to match the contents below:

[ui]
editor = /home/cmartin/bin/uex.app
merge = UltraCompare

[extdiff]
cmd.UltraCompare = /home/cmartin/bin/ucx.app
cmd.args = -i -B -b -lt -t $local $other

[tortoisehg]
vdiff = UltraCompare
ui.language = en

[merge-tools]
UltraCompare.executable = /home/cmartin/bin/ucx.app
UltraCompare.args = -i -B -b -lt -t $local $other
UltraCompare.priority = 1
UltraCompare.gui = True
UltraCompare.binary = True
UltraCompare.checkconflicts = True
UltraCompare.checkchanged = True

Now tortoisehg is integrated and working with UltraEdit and UltraCompare.