Anna,
Can you run Stata commands from jEdit without the Stata XML file?
Is jEdit your preferred editor? If not, you can try Notepad++ because
it has been tested with Stata under Windows Vista. Instructions for
Notepad++ are on one of the pages you mentioned.
http://huebler.info/2008/20080427-stata.html
Friedrich
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Anna Reimondos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope this is the right place to ask this question.
> I am using STATA 10, on a computer running Windows Vista. At the
> moment I am trying to use jEdit as a text editor for working with a
> large do-file where I feel that the colour highlighting and other
> features of JEdit would be useful.
> I have read the guides online by Nick Cox
> (http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html) and Fredrich
> Huebler (http://huebler.info/2008/20080427-stata.html) and understand
> that I must first put a 'stata.xml file' containing a list of STATA
> syntax into the 'modes' folder where JEdit is installed. The next step
> according to the guide is to go into the 'catalog' file, found in the
> 'modes' folder and add an entry :
>
> <MODE NAME="stata" FILE="stata.xml"
> FILE_NAME_GLOB="*.{do,ado,log}" />
>
> When I do this I get the following jEdit error message and the file
> does not save the changes I have made:
>
> The following I/O operation could not be completed.
> Cannot save: java.io.IOException: Rename failed: C\Program
> Files\JEdit\modes\#catalog#save#.
>
>
> I don't understand what I am doing incorrectly, and whether this is a
> problem with Windows Vista.
> Has anyone else had a similar problem?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Anna
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