Re: st: New package -textpad- on SSC

[David Elliott <dcelliott@gmail.com>]

Note that if you just want to invoke the editor, you can insert into
your -profile.do- something like:

global F4 winexec "c:\Program Files\TextPad 5\TextPad.exe"';

to map a command macro to the F4 function key and your editor will
always be just a keystroke away.
[ note the terminating semi-colon which ensures the command executes
instead of just writing to the command line!! ]

I'll also put in my intermittent pitch for the NoteTab programmable
text editor which allows complex scripting actions to not only be done
on text, but also interacting with other programs without the use of
AutoIt scripts [ http://www.autoitscript.com/ ] used by some other
text editors.  I have built of library of NoteTab scripts that allow
interaction with Stata and help in writing do/ado files advancing the
work or Ross Odell mentioned in the
[ http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html ]
review.  By way of example, the following menu listing gives an idea
of the actions that are supported:

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  About this Library...
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run all/selected
noisily run
do all/selected
do and don't stop
do to end
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exec selected mata
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Debug (trace on|off)
Cleanup (programs|logs)
Discard from Memory
Match brackets
Close Log
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Strip #review numbers

 Commenting
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Comment selection /**/
Add Comment to block
Uncomment a block

 Quick Reference
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Math Functions
String Functions
Extended Functions
Hilited Keyword Help
Date/Time Ref.

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Ado Header
while
if
for[each|values]

macro string quotes (`"`'"')
macro plain quotes (`')
macro dir (for debugging)
generate
egen
replace

 Multi-line display cmd

 Utilities
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List files
List do-files + *comments
List ado-files + /*comments*/
List all ado in subdirectories
Strip Log Cmds to File
Format Table for WP
Alternate Table Format
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Stata Website Links

Open Command Log

NoteTab can be found at [ http://notetab.com ]
The NoteTab Stata library is at:
[ http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/d.elliott/stata.clb ]

DC Elliott

On 17 November 2010 12:43, Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

    Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package -textpad- is now available for
download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.

    The -textpad- package is described as below on my website. It
allows the user to call TextPad from within Stata, as a user might
want to do if using TextPad as an alternative to the Stata do-file
editor. I would like to thank Nick Cox for suggesting this
possibility, for text editors in general, in the notes on text editors
for use with Stata at . . .
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    package textpad from

    http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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