highlight: guess by text when path name is ambiguous Although the docs claim that guess_lexer_for_filename will fall back to using file data, my ubuntu 7.10 pygments library seems to ignore the text argument. So call guess_lexer explicitly on failure.

#!/bin/sh

hg init
echo This is file a1 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "commit #0" -d "1000000 0"
touch b
hg add b
rm b
hg commit -A -m"comment #1" -d "1000000 0"