I have the same problem with EditPlus and every other editor I've tried.
Yes, one could switch to Stata and use the built-in do-editor. However, it
is not exactly feature-rich (no syntax highlighting, etc). Thus, I think
Nick's point is that it would be nice to have the features of a good text
editor married to the convenience of being able to work on the data
currently in memory. Yes, I know, I'm lazy. But I'm GenX; I'm all about
convenience - especially in computing. Don't you think its great that Stata
is already so good that we actually have time to sweat the small stuff?
Best,
Lee
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Newson [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:41 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: TEXTPAD
>
> At 15:30 04/12/02 -0500, Nick Winter wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Roger Newson [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:17 PM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: st: TEXTPAD
> > >
> > >
> > > At 11:27 04/12/02 -0800, Javier Bacarreza wrote:
> > > >Does Anyone know Hoe can i run STATA from TextPad?..
> > > >How can I configure It?
> > >
> > > In TextPad, get into the Configure menu. Then click on
> > > Preferences->Tools->Add. Then add a command line like that
> > > for your Stata
> > > shortcut. (You might want to make the "Initial Folder" option
> > > equal to
> > > $FileDir so that Stata always starts in the directory containing your
> > > current file.) After this, you should be able to run Stata
> > > using the Tools
> > > menu.
> > >
> > > TextPad has a good on-line help of its own, which should help
> > > you a lot.
> > > Try the menu sequence Help->Help topics and type in the
> > > keyword "tools".
> > > You might also like to associate file extensions such as .do
> > > and .log with
> > > TextPad, so that, if you click on a do-file, then it opens it
> > > in TextPad
> > > instead of running it.
> > >
> > > I hope this helps.
> > >
> > > Roger
> >
> >Anyone figured out how to get such a tool in Textpad to switch to the
> >currently running Stata, rather than starting a new version?
>
> Surely, if you want to do that, you simply click on the icon for the
> currently running Stata on the icon bar at the bottom of your screen. So
> nothing is gained by having a TextPad tool to do this. Or am I missing
> something?
>
> Roger
>
>
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