[ESS] stata 10

[Brendan Halpin]

Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu> writes:

> If anyone else cares about stata...  It seems to work out-of-the-box (no
> changes to ESS needed).  However, the scrolling is horrible.  The
> first page
> of info comes out fine.  Then, you get a --more--.  However, hitting return
> only gives you one more line!  So, just hold it down.  It wants you to hit
> the space bar to get another whole page, but the space bar just gives you a
> space.  

This is where ~/.ess-stata comes in handy: Put

q
set more off

in it. 

> And, there is some
> backspace garbage coming to the buffer.  

This I don't know about. Maybe it is Stata 10 specific, or maybe it has
to do with the sort of terminal Stata thinks it is in. If the latter, it
should be possible to do something in ESS's invocation of Stata.

In passing:
> Then, you get a --more--.  However, hitting return
> only gives you one more line!  So, just hold it down.  It wants you to hit
> the space bar to get another whole page, but the space bar just gives you a
> space.  
In general in Emacs shell-like modes, the thing to do here is SPACE RET
. It's just a consequence of being in a line-wise mode when the program
at the other end expects character-wise.

Brendan
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