Re: st: do-file editor shortcuts

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

Hello again.

Oops. I should have read your message more carefully.
I alluded to the menus to tell you the keystroke equivalent. I use 
Stata 10, and evidently, they are not there in Stata 12.
Here are some keystrokes:

ctrl-N -- new file
ctrl-O -- Open
ctrl-S -- Save
ctrl-shift-S -- Save As

ctrl-shift-Y -- Select Line
ctrl-Y -- Delete Line
ctrl-U -- Change Case (on selected text)
ctrl-I -- Shift Right
ctrl-shift-I -- Shift Left

F3 -- Find Next
ctrl-H -- Replace
ctrl-F -- Find
ctrl-L -- Go to Line
ctrl-B -- Balance (*)
ctrl-5 -- Match (*)

ctrl-D -- Do
ctrl-shift-D -- Do to Bottom
ctrl-R -- Run

(* -- I don't yet know what those mean.)

HTH
--David

At 10:36 AM 5/9/2013, you wrote:
> 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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