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Re: st: Keymappings/backspace/insert/overwrite using Stata/Linux at the console
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"Neil Shephard" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Keymappings/backspace/insert/overwrite using Stata/Linux at the console
Date
Tue, 15 May 2007 17:10:37 +0100
On 5/15/07, Dave Ewart <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,
Something that I've been wondering about for a while: is there any way
to modify the way that Stata's command-line editing works, specifically
for Stata 9 under Linux, working at the console (i.e. 'stata' rather
than 'xstata')?
By default, command-line editing is in 'overwrite' mode, which means
that if you type:
use ataset.dta
and realise that I meant 'dataset.dta', I move the cursor on to the 'a'
at the start of 'ataset' and then type 'd', I see:
use dtaset.dta
which isn't what I want either. Instead, I must hit my "Insert" key
first.
This behaviour is at odds with usual Unix shell-like behaviour and also
at odds with 'xstata', or Stata under Windows.
Not a direct solution, but you could use stata under ESS (Emacs Speaks
Statistics) and/or Bill Rising's Stata ado-mode and configure Emacs to
behave as desired.
See http://ess.r-project.org/ and
http://www.bellarmine.edu/faculty/wrising/Stata/ado-mode_install.html
respectively for more information.
Neil
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