A while back I showed how to get Stata 12 to work with MacVim. This is to let you know about a bug fix. I posted the details on the Statalist just now. If you're reading this blog and you're not also a Statalist subscriber, you may want to change that.

If you've ever seen the Error in plot.new(): figure margins too large message before, this is the best overview of the problem that I could find anywhere. There can be a lot of knobs to turn when it comes to graphics, no matter what statistical programming environment you use. In R, typing par() at the [...]

You don't always want to start a do-file in the editor for every small thing, though I usually do, and then trash it if I don't need it. So, my default stance is that I want to preserve work for later. Yours may be the opposite. If so, one option is to type in the [...]