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> 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?
>
Nothing OT about this at all.
Try
program winedt
version 8
* discard
if "`*'" != "" local file "`c(pwd)'\`*'"
winexec "D:\Programme\WinEdt\WinEdt.exe" `"`file'"'
end
Evidently we need a volunteer to write a WinEdt section
for this FAQ....
Nick
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