Uli:
For your Mac 64/MP version, just type -doedit- and you will get a do-
file editor window that is 'untitled'. You'll have to click the
'save' button to name it.
There are some alternatives that can be more useful:
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1.
You could create a read-only 'template' do-file in your pwd. You can
then call this template.do file up in the Stata do-file editor by
typing -doedit template- . Alternatively, you could create an .ado
file that calls up that template do-file whenever you type -template-
(or whatever you want to call it). The reason template.do should be
read-only is so you'll never overwrite it (in Mac: Click the
template.do file in Finder, Press Command+i , check "Locked" ). The
advantage of storing a read-only template is that you can preload
sections and commands that you use frequently (such as setting the
memory, matsize, or macros for certain sessions)
Example:
program define template
di "Data Management Do-File Template `1'"
cd "/applications/stata/data/"
doedit template.do
end
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2.
A final alternative is to use fedit (found using -findit fedit-) so
that you can call up your template.do in a text editor of your choice:
*First, modify the fedit.ado file to recognize your text editor, for
example for the alphaX text editor on Mac your fedit.ado file could
read:
Example:
program define fedit
version 8.0
gettoken file options : 0, parse(",")
discard
qui findfile "`file'" `options'
doedit "`r(fn)'"
shell open -a alphax.app "`r(fn)'"
end
*Next, call up your template.do (avoid using the path() option by
placing template.do in your 'adopath') with the command:
fedit template.do, path(/Applications/Stata/)
Eric
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On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:08 AM, Ulrich Kohler wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 26.03.2009, 21:18 -0500 schrieb David Airey:
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If I type
doedit foo.do
and foo.do doesn't exist, what is the behavior of Stata on Windows or
Linux?
On the mac, Stata64/MP does nothing. I would have thought that is
should either give an error message saying the file could not be
found, or create foo.do.
On Linux, the Do-File editor starts with a buffer called foo.do, but
the
file foo.do is not actually created on the hard disk. The file is
created as soon as you hit the the save button in the tool bar.
Uli
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