You can get the current directory from:
local dir: pwd
or, in Stata 8 if you want to insert it right into the winexec command,
`:pwd' refers to the current path
you may need to use compound double quotes to make sure this deals with
spaces within directory names
Michael Blasnik
[email protected]
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: st: Stata and WinEdt as text editor
> Dear statalisters
>
> I am sorry if this is slightly OT. I would like to use my favourite Editor
> (WinEdt) for do-file editing. After having read
> http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html , I wrote the
following
> program and stored it in an ado-file:
>
> program winedt
> version 8
> * discard
> winexec "D:\Programme\WinEdt\WinEdt.exe" `*'
> end
>
> Now, typing
> - winedt -
> in Stata works fine, but when specifying a file name, like - winedt
> myfile.do-, winedt fails to look in the current Stata working directory
for
> myfile. Instead, it looks in the directory where WinEdt was opend last
> time, and fails to open myfile.do. If I specify the whole path to myfile,
> everything works fine, but it is more typing work each time.
>
> I could not change this behaviour from within WinEdt. Is there some way to
> modify the above program in such a way that on typing - winedt
myfile.do -,
> stata substitutes "current_working_dir\myfile.do", and that specifying a
> file name at all is still optional?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
> Eva
> ____________________________________
> Eva Poen
> University of St. Gallen
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