I would gladly see in the next version of stata(console) a tab completion
mode (using the tab key to complete variable or command names and
present a list of possible completions when more than one is
available, a most useful feature), as well as more customizable key
bindings. I got used to typing C-r to recall past commands, but the
page-up bind strikes me as kind of unusual for that purpose, when most
shells (unix shells) or text interfaces do that task upon hitting the
up-key. I would rather be happy to use the page-up key to make the buffer
scroll-up. By the way, is it possible to scroll up the results
window of the GUI version of stata (xstata) with keys only?
Quite a good set of suggestions. One must be careful with adding
intelligence to command-line-completion, though. The command-line OS X has
such a feature, where it guesses which Unix command you probably meant, and
proposes it. For instance, a misspelling of Unix command 'ls' :
