Re: -fastcd- [was: Re: st: MIME-Version: 1.0]

[Ulrich Kohler <kohler@wzb.eu>]

If you like -fastcd-, you might also like the package -dirtools-. The
command -ldir- of -dirtools- provides clicking access to the -fastcd-
bookmarks and to some other things that might be useful:


. ldir
/home/kohler

Places to go:
[up] [home] [brzinsky] [cooker] [health] [kke] [liferisks_anhang]
[nlcorr] [zaesur]

Subfolders:
Bilder       ado          bin          diverses     gutachten    lit
pub          vgwort
Desktop      auto         cooker       download     lehre        mywww
texmf        vorlagen
Ubuntu One   bewerbungen  data         elisp        liferisks    post
usi          wzbnet

Known filetypes here:
[.smcl] [.tex]


Uli

Am Donnerstag, den 24.03.2011, 13:08 -0300 schrieb David Elliott:
> fastcd is one of those little utilities that, once you have used it,
> you wonder how you managed without.
> 
> In Stata, all I do is type:
> 
> . c
>                  1% ###\Projects\1%
>                aphs ###t\Projects\aphs
>                 icu ###\icuapp
>                 imm ###\Elliott\immunization
>                  np ###\Projects\nurse practitioner
>                 pan ###t\Projects\Pandemic
>               rates ###\DATA\rates
>               stata ###\Stata10
>                temp c:\temp
>                test c:\ado\test
>              trends ###\wait times\data
>                 vac ###\Vaccine Validation Project
>                wait ###\wait time project\data
> 
> and I have one click access to all my project directories or I can use
> the alias from the command line or in a dofile.
> 
> David Elliott
> 
> Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
> Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
>  -- Robert A. Heinlein (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 24 March 2011 12:06, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Not so.
> >
> > Although it's not standard, it's nevertheless explained in the package
> > documentation that the command within the -fastcd- package is called
> > -c- and as such is implemented in an .ado file called c.ado.
> >
> > Note that -help c- in Stata calls up help on -c()-, evidently grounds
> > enough for some complication here.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:45 PM, A Loumiotis
> > <antonis.loumiotis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It is not currently possible to install fastcd from ssc because the
> >> ado file is missing.  Only the help file is available and can be
> >> installed.
> >
> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Neil Shephard <nshephard@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> You could ease this process by installing and using -fastcd- so that
> >>> you have a set of what are essentially macros for the "very long path"
> >>> that you can call to change directory.
> >>>
> >>> Once in that "working" directory you will likely have sub-directories
> >>> for 'data', 'scripts' and so forth and its then a case of...
> >>>
> >>> use "data/mydata", clear
> >>>
> >>> Check out -fastcd- from ssc and install with....
> >>>
> >>> ssc desc fastcd
> >>> ssc install fastcd
> >>>
> >>> It's a great little utility from Nick Winter.
> >
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