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.

I used to run Stata 10 with Vim on Windows. Now I run Stata 12 with MacVim. In Windows, there is a nice way to integrate Stata and Vim based on the work of Friedrich Huebler and Dimitriy Masterov. A fairly straightforward combination of bash scripts, Vim functions and Applescript calls can achieve the same [...]

The problem: I now use two laptop computers -- my own and the one I got from work. I have been wondering for a while if there was an easy way to deploy the same home environment across different physical machines given that you would need it for some reasons, but not for others. For [...]

My main trouble with UNIX is that I'll go looking for a quick answer, find it, and then somehow still keep digging until I'm utterly stumped, long after I solved the initial problem. Here's one example: On the recommendation of my friend Bálint Érdi, I signed on with Dropbox, and I figured one good use [...]

Sooner or later I will have to make a permanent move from Windows XP to Windows 7. I have a spare hard drive for this sort of experiments, so I transferred my settings to it with the wonderful Windows Easy Transfer and watched to see what might break. Sure enough, Vim promptly lost the ability [...]