Re: st: create keyboard shotcuts on Apple Mac

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Andrea Bennett wrote:
> In my case I work with TextMate as an external editor. Quite  
> frequently TextMate does not execute the the do-file when selecting  
> only one line within a do-file (when executing a single line in  
> TextMate the highlighted line simply is copied to a do-file called  
> textmatetostata.do and then executed). The code gets copied into  
> the textmatetostata.do so executing this file results in what I  
> need but I always have to switch back to TextMate and select that  
> file and execute it. So, if I could simply create a shortcut (like  
> a global macro) for executing the textmatetostata.do within Stata,  
> that would do the trick.

I have written a TextMate bundle for Stata, which handles executing  
the current file or line/selection (plus several other features).   
Following the standard TextMate convention, "do current file" is  
bound to cmd-R, and "do current line/selection" is bound to opt-cmd- 
R, but these can easily be changed.  If you're interested, let me  
know and I'll send you my bundle.

WRT keyboard shortcuts, IIRC, you can use System Preferences ->  
Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts to map a shortcut to any menu  
item in any Cocoa application.  If this is correct, then once Stata  
has been translated to Cocoa, you will be able to map shortcuts to  
any Stata menu item you want.


-- Phil

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