Re: st: Stata Editor for Mac with Code Folding

[June Bridge <junebridge25@gmail.com>]

Thanks! I've been trying TextMate and I like it a lot so far.

One question - I've noticed that TextMate doesn't seem to recognize all 
the different types of comments in stata - it gets comments that are 
enclosed in /* .. */  just fine, as well as lines that start with *, but 
it doesn't properly color comments that start with "//".  Also, it 
thinks that any time there is an "*" that it's a comment, when sometimes 
it's just a multiplication sign (it should only be considered a comment 
if it's at the beginning of the line).  Is there a way to edit the Stata 
bundle so that it properly recognizes comments?

Thanks,
June


On 4/10/13 10:20 AM, Phil Schumm wrote:
> On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:43 AM, Federico Belotti wrote:
> > You can use Textmate. It allows code-folding and a number of other useful things.
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> I would strongly second that.  TextMate allows for manual-code folding -- at the moment, we haven't incorporated any automatic folding into the Stata/Mata mode (e.g., automatically-defined folding for if/then/else blocks, function and class defs, loops, etc.).  However, feel free to suggest enhancements (the more specific the suggestion is, the better) or pull requests!
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> -- Phil
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> P.S. You want to be using the TextMate 2.0 alpha version, available for download from http://macromates.com.  Although labeled "alpha", 2.0 is plenty stable for real work (I've been using it for ~6-8 hrs/day for the last year), and has considerably more features and polish than 1.5.  Most importantly, however, we no longer support the Stata bundle for 1.5.
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