st: Re: having Stata 9 and 10 both installed, and opening files by default with Stata 9 (not 10)

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 2:22 PM, David Radwin wrote:
> F, are you able to right-click on a do-file and have it open up in  
> the do-file editor (rather than than have Stata run it)?
>
> Can anyone tell me if and how I might do this on Stata 10 for  
> Macintosh?

Not possible, I'm afraid.  Stata (when last I checked) supports only  
the required set of Apple Events (Open Application, Open Document,  
Print Document, and Quit Application).  And Open Document when called  
on a do-file will run it -- not open it in the editor.  Thus, the  
only way to accomplish what you want is to write a shell script that  
grabs the path to your selected file, creates a temporary do-file  
with the line:

doedit <filepath>

and then uses an Applescript to ask Stata to open this temporary  
file.  Of course, the alternative is to get a good text editor and  
then set the Finder to use that editor to open files with the .do  
extension.  This would mean that double-clicking on the file would  
open it for editing; you could also right-click and open the file in  
Stata (i.e., run it).  If you decide to go this route, I would  
strongly suggest looking at TextMate.  I can send you a Stata bundle  
for it, if you want.


-- Phil

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