Thank you very much, Shannon. This solution radically improves the safety of
Stata 9, in my opinion.
Yet this solution was already available in Stata 8 (I think).
Now that there is Stata 9 it would be great if we could launch .do files (by
clicking them) in the DoEditor as a separate instance of the DoEditor in the
*same* instance of Stata (if one is already launced).
Best,
Renzo
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*From [email protected] (Shannon Driver, StataCorp)
To [email protected]
Subject Re: st: Launching Stata 9 from do files as -doedit-
Date Tue, 10 May 2005 11:13:58 -0500
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Renzo Comolli <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to change the settings so that when I click on a .do file the
> doeditor is launched (as opposed to the default behavior, which is to -do-
> the file).
> Is that possible?
For Windows XP users, you can do the following:
1. Click on Start -> Control Panel -> Folder Options to open the
"Folder
Options" dialog
2. Click on the "File Types" tab
3. Scroll down the list to "DO Stata Do-file" and highlight it by
single clicking on it
4. Click on the Advanced button towards the bottom of the dialog
5. In the "Actions:" box, single click on "open" then click the
"Edit..." button
6. In the box under "Application used to perform action:", you should
see
something like
"C:\Program Files\Stata9\wsestata.exe" do "%1"
The path and executable name here may differ, depending on where you
actually installed Stata and which flavor you are running.
Change the "do" part of this to "doedit".
"C:\Program Files\Stata9\wsestata.exe" doedit "%1"
7. Click on OK to close that dialog, OK to close the previous dialog,
and
Close to close the Folder Options dialog.
--Shannon Driver
[email protected]
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