Re: st: Features for Stata 14

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

And one more: A much more powerful regex kit? Esp. now that we have strLs?

But that also applies to the do-file editor a bit. And I must add to
Phil's point: There are locked down Stata installations when users
cannot easily get the text editor they like. If I bargained for Stata
on a server, it would be nice I didn't need to fight with IT for an
extra text editor necessarily.

And I could also imagine some more gracious error handling. Sometimes
not even -do, nostop- works for me, and my long jobs in batches crash
because of a single subgroup of outcome variable I was looping over
produced something weird for some command. I would still be interested
in the rest of the output…

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Nicole Boyle <nicboyle@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think these were incorporated in either Stata 12 or 13 (at least for the Mac)...
>>
>> (1)  Do-file editor improvements, including:
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>> -Consistent indentation of wrapped lines
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>> -Code folding (currently, I think this might be available only to Stata for Windows)
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>> -Autosuggestion/autofill options (for variable names and commands...  this would not only greatly speed up initial code writing, but would also help prevent needless spelling errors that slow down code execution)
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>> -Multiple selection edits (hard to explain, but Sublime Text has this and it looks useful)
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> First, Stata 13 for OS X does have code folding.  WRT auto-indentation (or tidying), command or variable/name completion, and multiline editing, Stata's do-file may get these at some point, but Stata will likely never have the full features and flexibility of a dedicated text editor.  Thus, if you want these features, select a good text editor.  For example, TextMate (together with the Stata bundle) provides all of the features you describe above (and more).
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>> (2) Other general suggestions:
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>> -Allow for "undo" (Command/Control + Z) and "redo" edits of code written in the command line (remarkably unavailable in Stata 12 for Mac)
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> Works for me in Stata SE 13 (OS X); cmd-Z for Undo, and shift-cmd-Z for Redo.
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>> -More functionality via keyboard shortcuts (for instance, I still can't break code execution from the keyboard on Stata 12 for Mac)
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> cmd-period
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> -- Phil
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