Support for multi-platform files Text files created on the Material in a fixed-width font, preserving the alignment of original card-image Such a document much more quickly than a word processor, and will display the An efficient text editor will usually be able to search Sizable text files such as the machine-readable ASCII codebooks provided with Let us single out some of the specific advantages of text editors.Ībility to work with large text files One major advantage of a textĮditor for many statistical researchers is the ability to work with quite
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In addition, it is often true that word processors are notįast enough to handle even moderately large text files comfortably.įor example, when opening text files you have to wait while the software translatesīetween text format and its own native format. Of those features are irrelevant to, or even a hindrance to, efficient textįile editing, and the features most needed for text editing may be hard toįind, or even absent. Moreover, while a word processor may be heavily laden with features, many The resulting file can thus be messed up. With pure text files in a word processor it is easy to forget to do this, and Plain text, the results can be unpredictable, and, most crucially, when working Plain text, but they have an overwhelming bias to producing documents in some They frequently have automatic features such as substitutingĬurly quotes for those you actually typed. Word processors insert line breaks and page breaks to make the document followĪ uniform style. Whatever software reads them and, indeed, by the people who read them. Maintained as is in order that data and programs can be understood correctly by In a textįile lines of text are the fundamental units and, very often, should be A text editor byĬontrast is predisposed to treat a pure text file quite literally. Word processor works is aimed at this: styling text, integrating tables andįigures, creating footnotes and indexes, and so on.
Mind will be MS Word) formats and organises a document. A word processor (for many Stata users, the example to spring to Within any section refers to the person named as its author.)ĭon't use a word processor to edit text filesįirst, be clear about the difference between a word processor and a textĮditor. Underscore that what follows is often just personal opinion, and is not to beĪttributed to any institution, either those we work for or those we don't. Finally, it should be obvious, but let us Necessarily a measure of the value of an editor, and we welcome suggestions andĬorrections from those with expertise and experience in the use of particularĮditors together with Stata. That we don't use it, not that it has no value. Particular text editor is not mentioned here, by far the most likely reason is Conversely, it would beįutile to make comments on editors we know little or nothing about. We have found reliable, versatile and productive. We are not shy about recommending editors enthusiastically which Here is provide some general comments and some specific comments based on ourĮxperiences. Many possible editors, even for one of the platforms, Macintosh, variousįlavors of Unix (including Linux) and Windows, on which Stata runs. Just a brief search of the internet or of available documentation will reveal Integrating Stata and external editors with AutoIt.Integrating Stata and an external editor.
Don't use a word processor to edit text files.But please note that we have no desire to develop this page into aĬompletely general guide to text editors. If this web page is of any interest to people who are not Stata users, Indeed, many users already have someįavorite editor(s) which they employ alongside Stata. We believe that most if notĪll Stata users would find a good text editor very helpful for working withĭo or ado files, log files, text data files and any Seeking advice on text editors to use with Stata. Wagstaff, Pennsylvania State Universityįredrik Wallenberg, University of California, BerkeleyĮmail addresses are given in the form joanna.smith at whereever.whateverĪnd so should be translated to FAQ is intended primarily for users of the statistical software Wade, US Environmental Protection Agencyĭavid A. Sieswerda, Thunder Bay District Health Unit Jean Ries, Université Catholique de Louvain
Masterov, University of Michigan Stephen McKay, University of Bristol Lauritsen, Odense University Hospitalĭimitriy V. John Kalat, Washington State Dept of Labor and Industries Glenn Hoetker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignīenjamin Hulley, National Institutes of Health Rosa Gini, Agenzia Regionale di Sanit della Toscana Some notes on text editors for Stata users Some notes on text editors for Stata users
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