I agree strongly with Uli, as might be expected
if you look at the URL cited.
One simple point: the most developed text editors
in existence are of the same order of complexity --
and more crucially, of the same order of
versatility -- as Stata itself. Stata Corp's
aims in developing the do-file editors are merely
to provide a convenient and integrated simple
editor for small and moderate tasks, in which
aim I think they have succeeded. I certainly
use it myself, but not for developing Stata programs.
Nick
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Ulrich Kohler
> Aside: Even if the Stata dofile-editor work as expected
> there will be many
> reasons to use another one. Many aspects which might
> "force" you to use other
> editors can be found in
> http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html
> However you can still be fully confident in StataCorp
> without using their
> editor. I believe that even the developers of Stata do not
> use the do-file editor very often.
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