UltraEdit Word File

[Alan Jones]

Has anyone developed a wordfile for UltraEdit do to Stata syntax highlighting in UltraEdit? On the IDM site last versoin they have is for STATA 7 and the file looks like there are many gaps.

Would love something for STATA 14. Thought about building it myself, but would not know where to start or all the commands etc.

http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/e...wordfiles.html

thanks

Alan

[Friedrich Huebler]

See getcmds by @Jeff Pitblado.

findit getcmds

[Malcolm Wardlaw]

This is exactly what I was doing with TextMate actually. There isn't by any chance a way to do this with functions as well is there?

[Malcolm Wardlaw]

As a hack, I pulled out all of the help files for defined functions f_. This unfortunately leaves out anything for which multiple functions are covered in a single help file.

edit: I realized that I might have clobbered people's search results by listing all of the functions in the thread, so I appended them as a file.

[Malcolm Wardlaw]

After a little bit of regex, I believe I pulled all of the function names from the help files. Caveat emptor here, my regex-fu skills are grasshopper level at best, so I can't claim this is comprehensive.

[Nick Cox]

The motives for using syntax highlighting seem to vary from

1. The files look more colourful.

to

2. It helps identify possible errors in your code.

Compiling lists of command names and function names no doubt helps, but that's like the mythical labours of Hercules insofar as user-written commands are, whatever it is, a few thousand more, although in practice any individual user might employ only a few.

I've found that matching for paired punctuation catches many more errors in my code than does flagging possible typos, but experiences naturally can vary.