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 [...]

Last week I mentioned that in the course of switching from Notepad++ to Vim I lost the ability to run Stata do-files or selected lines from within the text editor, and I asked my readers for help if they had a solution. What do you know, one of them did, and wrote to me all [...]

I was looking for an excuse to try something new and I decided to pick on one Notepad++ shortcoming that was handy: the Stata syntax highlighting gets utterly mangled after compound quotes -- `"`like so'"' -- which do sometimes arise, usually in the process of file open/file write.  Vim does not get confused by compound quotes [...]