In case anybody is curious, and for the sake of thorough documentation: I found a solution, with help from the Statalist. Rather than the Vim plugin Chip Campbell suggested, I ended up leaving it to the OS. Two very minimalistic Vim functions call a bash script each. This does the job.
The whole conversation can be traced back from here: http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2011-09/msg00556.html. The entire code is shown as well. Best, Gabi On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Charles Campbell <charles.e.campb...@nasa.gov> wrote: > ghuiber wrote: >> >> I have a similar problem. I use Vim to edit Stata scripts (stata.com). >> These >> scripts are called do-files. They are simple text files, but with a .do >> extension, which Stata uses to recognize them as scripts. The Stata >> command >> for executing such a script, say called filename.do, is "do filename". >> >> In Windows, there is a way to launch Stata from Vim to execute either a >> do-file, or a set of selected lines in a do-file that is being edited in >> Vim. This can be repeated as many times as you want, whether or not Stata >> is >> already running, inside the same instance of Stata. I would like to get >> MacVim to do the same. >> >> The Windows solution consists of two parts. The first is a rundo.exe file >> written with an AutoIt script as described here -- >> http://s281191135.onlinehome.us/2008/20080427-stata.html. The second is a >> Vim script as described here -- >> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-06/msg00905.html. >> >> This Vim script goes into _gvimrc, and it describes two Vim functions: >> RunIt() for making Stata execute a do-file being edited in Vim, and >> RunDoLines() for making Stata execute a subset of selected lines of that >> file. >> >> For my first attempt at getting this to work in MacVim, I modified the >> script as shown below: >> >> " STATA DO-FILE SCRIPT >> >> function RunIt() >> wa >> !open -a StataMP --args do "%:p" >> endfunction >> >> :map<F7> :<C-U>call RunIt() >> :imap<F7> <Esc>:<C-U>call RunIt() >> >> function RunDoLines() >> let selectedLines = getbufline('%', line("'<"), line("'>")) >> >> if col("'>")< strlen(getline(line("'>"))) >> let selectedLines[-1] = strpart(selectedLines[-1], 0, col("'>")) >> endif >> if col("'<") != 1 >> let selectedLines[0] = strpart(selectedLines[0], col("'<")-1) >> endif >> >> let temp = tempname() . ".do" >> call writefile(selectedLines, temp) >> >> exec "!open -a StataMP --args do " . temp >> >> " Delete the temp file after Vim closes >> au VimLeave * silent exe '!rm "'.$TEMP.'\*.do"' >> endfunction >> >> :map<F8> :<C-U>call RunDoLines() >> :imap<F8> <Esc>:<C-U>call RunDoLines() >> >> > > I'm more curious than otherwise; have you considered using RunVIew with let > b:runview_filtcmd="open -a StataMP --args do"? > > You may get a new version of RunView from: > > http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#RUNVIEW (beta) > > To install, simply: > > vim RunView.vba.gz > :so % > :q > > I don't have StataMP to test this out, so the b:runview_filtcmd may or may > not be correct for RunView and StatMP. > If it is correct, you'd want to have it in .vim/ftplugin/[pick-a-suffix].vim > or .vim/ftplugin/[pick-a-suffix]/statmp.vim . > > Regards, > Chip Campbell > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
