I've notice that with pleasure, too. However, there seems to a limit to the
number of lines you can paste in. Does anyone know the limit on lines or
characters?
At 08:10 AM 5/4/2005, you wrote:
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?
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