st: Nifty new command window behavio(u)r

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

Hi all,

I note that (at least in Windows) the command window now allows you to 
paste multiple lines of commands, all at once.  That is, if you copy three 
lines of code from a text file (or email or whatever) and then paste them 
into the command window, they all appear in the window, and are executed in 
turn when you press Enter.

Multiple lines can also be entered in the command window, separated by 
Ctrl-Enter, and only executed when Enter is pressed.

This is very handy when executing a small bit of a .do file that is being 
edited in something other than the DoEditor, because several lines can be 
Copied and Pasted all at once.

But, I note, the command window processor does not seem to allow the 
end-of-line characters to be commented out, which seems to me to limit the 
usefulness of this feature.

Tha is, I can cut and paste the following from this email (Try it!):

forval i=1/3 {
di `i'
}

But not this:

sysuse auto, clear
graph twoway scatter mpg price //
        title("My Title")

I wonder if StataCorp could change this, and if others would find that useful?

--NIck


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