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Re: st: STATA and Mac system
On Jul 7, 2008, at 1:07 PM, David Radwin wrote:
Just beware the drag-and-drop bug that still plagues Stata for Mac.
It will crash the program and cause you to lose your unsaved work.
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2008-04/msg00585.html
To be clear, this problem only affects the built-in do-file editor
(which many people do not use), and then, only when you execute a
drag-and-drop (which many people never do). I would expect this
problem to vanish once Stata becomes a Cocoa application.
If you're new to OS X, one of the first things you'll want to do is
to find a text editor you like and then figure out how to use it
together with Stata (see http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/
textEditors.html to get you started). Both Emacs and vi work well on
OS X, and there are many excellent editors written explicitly to take
advantage of OS X's features. My current favorite is TextMate
(http://macromates.com/). Once you have a good editor, you'll never
open Stata's do-file editor again.
-- Phil
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