Fred Wolfe ([email protected]) asked a followup question
about bringing a Do-file Editor forward:
> Suppose that I have just reviewed results and I want to use the editor.
> Your solution sets me to alt-tabbing, when the tab I want may be far down
> the tab list (and easy to mistake). Stata 9 is very nice. It would be good
> if there could be a key saving -tab saving solution.
Within a given Stata session, Ctrl-Tab may be used instead of Alt-Tab.
Alt-Tab switches the focus between all top-level windows open on the
system. Ctrl-Tab switches the focus between only the windows within a
given Stata session.
If Fred has many windows open, this may still not be ideal. Fred
could map a function key so that, when pressed, that function key
would execute a command which would always bring to the top the
Do-file Editor which was last on top. This should be the Do-File
Editor with which Fred was most recently working.
If Fred defines the following (perhaps in his profile.do)
global F2 "window manage forward doeditor;"
Then pressing F2 will execute -window manage forward doeditor- which
will bring the topmost Do-file Editor in front of the main Stata
window and give it the focus.
--Alan
([email protected])
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
