Re: st: do-file editor shortcuts

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

At 11:15 PM 5/8/2013, Timothy Mak wrote:
> Hi Statalist,
>
> The Stata do-file editor obviously recognizes a number of keystrokes 
> which are shortcuts for some features. For example, Ctrl-I is indent 
> and Ctrl-Shift-I is decrease indent. These were available in the 
> menu of Stata 10 editors, but not anymore in Stata 12, although the 
> shortcuts continue to work.
>
> Occasionally I pressed something accidentally, and the editor 
> changed in some queer ways, and I wasn't able to identify what I 
> pressed. Once the spacing between the lines increased. Another time 
> "hidden characters" which seemed to be paragraph marks appeared, and 
> I wasn't able to get rid of them except by closing and reopening the 
> file. Has someone collected a list of active shortcuts for the 
> do-file editors?
> [...]

You can invoke any of the menus by ctrl plus the initial letter. 
Thus, ctrl-F gives you FIle.
Then you can make your choice by typing one of the underlined letters.
So, to save, I go, ctrf-F S.

On each of the menus, the shortcuts are explained. E.g., under Edit, 
you see ctrl-U for change case.
Under File, you'll find ctrl-S for Save (another alternative way to 
Save) plus others.

In addition to those seen in the menus...

Shift + arrow keys selects text.
ctrl-Home -- go to top of buffer
ctrl-End -- go to bottom of buffer
ctrl-PgUp -- cycle forward through multiple buffers
ctrl-PgDn -- cycle backward through multiple buffers
ctrl-Tab   -- cycle backward through multiple buffers (just 
discovered that today by accident).

There may be others.
HTH
--David

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