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Re: st: Integrating Stata and Vi in Ubuntu
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Neil Shephard <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Integrating Stata and Vi in Ubuntu
Date
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:11:02 +0000
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Helge Liebert
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have previously used stata and gvim under windows xp and still use
> this set up at work. to work at home i have installed ubuntu on an old
> laptop of mine. i would like to be able to launch do files or parts of
> them from vi, just like i was before. in windows i used the solution by
> d. materov explained here
> http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/texteditors.html
>
> which obviously wont work under linux. can anybody help me out? im
> completely new to linux, and being able to execute code from vi is just
> immensely practical.
>
Longtime GNU/Linux user, but I never got on with Vi(m) so I've no insight.
A quick google suggests its possible (e.g. Vim Docs Chapter 21
http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/usr_21.html).
No desire to get into a discussion about it but Emacs has the
excellent Emacs Speaks Statistics (see http://ess.r-project.org/) that
supports Stata if you can be bothered to learn Emacs.
One useful interim trick would be to use the mouse to high-light a
section of text and then paste it into the Stata command section by
clicking the left and right mouse button simultaneously (see
http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2006/11/copypaste-diffe.html for an
overview). This works on virtually everything in GNU/Linux program
and is exceptionally useful (and is the thing I miss most when forced
to use M$ OS's, thankfully there is a small program for windows
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/).
Hope that helps a little,
Neil
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