diff -r 6025ddb4e649 -r 6c1b7f80f90f hgext/histedit.py
--- a/hgext/histedit.py	Thu Feb 04 03:46:38 2016 +0000
+++ b/hgext/histedit.py	Thu Feb 04 03:47:00 2016 +0000
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@
         except IOError as err:
             if err.errno != errno.ENOENT:
                 raise
-            raise error.Abort(_('no histedit in progress'))
+            cmdutil.wrongtooltocontinue(self.repo, _('histedit'))
 
         if state.startswith('v1\n'):
             data = self._load()