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Re: st: 64 bit Stata for the Mac /feature request
Hello to all,
thank you very much for all your comments about do-file/ texteditors.
I wasn't aware that stata is capable to handle apple events.
As I'm not familiar with apple script - is there a good ressource
explaining how to use apple events
with emacs (or any other external editor)?
Regarding emacs, I'm currently using the ESS extension (http://stat.ethz.ch/ESS/
), which does not
offer stata interoperability. Or, at least I coudn't figure out how to
use it.
The ado-mode page (http://www.bellarmine.edu/content/about/faculty/wrising/Stata
), which is linked
from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html, seems to
have disappeared.
Is it mirrored somewhere?
However, this is not the only issue to solve.
The other thing is the exporting/ extraction of results.
Most OS X applications support the "Alt"-key when marking text.
For instance, with "Unphased", which is running in terminal.app, it
is possible to mark a distict
area of the text, like an individual column, an copy&paste it.
(http://creativebits.org/mac_os_x/free_text_area_selection)
I REALLY miss this functionality in the stata results window, and I
would like to strongly encourage the Stata
developers to include it in their next release.
Thanks,
Chris
Am 15.06.2008 um 15:36 schrieb Phil Schumm:
On Jun 14, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Christopher Intemann wrote:
For instance, I'm writing my scripts using emacs in stata mode.
However, there is no way to run them (or parts from them) directly
from emacs. It would be nice if the upcomming stata release would
offer an interface for external editors.
If all you want to do is to run the file you're editing (or selected
portions of it) in Stata, then you can use an "Open" Apple Event to
do this. For more information, see the section on Macintosh editors
in http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html. I'm not an
emacs user, but IIRC, it has a "do-applescript" command that you can
use for this; I thought it had been incorporated into Bill Rising's
Stata mode for emacs, but perhaps not. I have used this approach
with AlphaX (and now TextMate) and it works quite well.
In fact, with the OS X executable update dated 25feb2008, this
approach now works even better. Prior to that, when Stata had
finished processing a file it would notify you via OS X's
notification system (i.e., bouncing icon in the dock), and wouldn't
accept any further requests until you had responded to the
notification by switching focus to Stata. After the update, Stata
no longer waits to accept new requests, and there is a preference
item so that you can disable notification all together. These
changes make working with external editors on OS X much nicer.
The question of whether StataCorp should add features to its do-file
editor has been addressed several times before on the list. As
several have noted, many of the users who find it inadequate would
also find inadequate any editor except their preferred one. These
users want to be able to use the same text editor for everything
(e.g., data-analytic work, coding, writing, etc.), and have invested
considerable effort in learning how to use their text editor
efficiently and/or customizing it to suit their needs. StataCorp
may decide to add features to their do-file editor in the future
(since, clearly, there are a lot of users who use it), however my
suggestion would be to take your preferred editor and figure out how
to use it well with Stata; that way, you'll be happy whatever
StataCorp does.
-- Phil
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