Re: st: GNU Emacs, ESS and Stata

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Apr 29, 2008, at 10:34 AM, David Airey wrote:
> I guess I don't know what I'm missing. I use and don't mind the  
> Stata do editor. I also think the Mac R Gui is OK.
>
> I may try to switch completely to vim after reading:
>
> http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
>
> http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/vim_tutorial.html
>
> and finding development of:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/macvim/

If you're looking for an editor that you can use cross-platform, then  
clearly vim (or emacs, or perhaps even JEdit) are what you want.   
However, if you're only interested in using it on OS X, then I'd also  
strongly encourage you to look at TextMate.  This is a fully Cocoa  
application that is both a full-class OS X citizen but also allows  
you to leverage the power of Unix very easily (e.g., without having  
to pour through complicated documentation or learning Lisp).  In  
fact, you could even write TextMate extensions in Stata itself!  And  
its flexibility allows you to work with some of the unique elements  
of Stata syntax (e.g., ` ', `" "', many different ways to signify a  
comment block, command abbreviation, etc.) in ways that are very  
difficult (or even impossible) to do in other editors.


-- Phil

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