Re: st: Adjusting file associations so do-files open in editor?

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Jeph for warning us Windows XP Pro users in advance about the 
horrible prospects waiting for us, if and when we upgrade to Windows 7 
or even Windows Vista. I have just had to migrate to a new hard disk 
because the old one failed. A lot of the manual work involved in this 
exercise was altering default file associations to refer to my chosen 
text editor TextPad, which I use to open Stata do-files and many other 
file types, and which is described (with other text editors used with 
Stata) at

http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/textEditors.html

It is helpful to know that (unfortunately) it will be even worse in 
Windows 7, and that (fortunately) there seems to be something that we 
can do about it.

Best wishes

Roger


On 23/03/2010 16:02, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> Since I started Win 7, I found this tool to be very
> useful:
>
>    http://defaultprogramseditor.com/
>
> It is free and does what Win 7 does not - allows you to
> add, remove, and edit the file associations for every
> extension.
>
> hth,
> Jeph
>
>
> Venable wrote:
> > Hi Statalisters,
> >
> > Is it possible to set preferences or adjust profile.do so that
> > do-files open in the editor by default, rather than being run in
> > Stata?
> >
> > My apologies if this is obvious or has been discussed on the list - I
> > did a bit of searching but did not find anything.
> >
> > In case it's relevant, I use Stata 11 SE on Windows 7 Enterprise.
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