Re: st: Keymappings/backspace/insert/overwrite using Stata/Linux at the console

["Neil Shephard" <nshephard@gmail.com>]

On 5/15/07, Dave Ewart <davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Something that I've been wondering about for a while: is there any way
> to modify the way that Stata's command-line editing works, specifically
> for Stata 9 under Linux, working at the console (i.e. 'stata' rather
> than 'xstata')?
>
> By default, command-line editing is in 'overwrite' mode, which means
> that if you type:
>
>   use ataset.dta
>
> and realise that I meant 'dataset.dta', I move the cursor on to the 'a'
> at the start of 'ataset' and then type 'd', I see:
>
>   use dtaset.dta
>
> which isn't what I want either.  Instead, I must hit my "Insert" key
> first.
>
> This behaviour is at odds with usual Unix shell-like behaviour and also
> at odds with 'xstata', or Stata under Windows.
Not a direct solution, but you could use stata under ESS (Emacs Speaks
Statistics) and/or Bill Rising's Stata ado-mode and configure Emacs to
behave as desired.

See http://ess.r-project.org/  and
http://www.bellarmine.edu/faculty/wrising/Stata/ado-mode_install.html
respectively for more information.

Neil
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