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  • Suggestions for improvements to new bookmarks feature

    First, to TPTB at Stata, thanks for adding such a cool feature in Stata 17. It's a very clever solution and another useful enhancement to the ever-improving do-file editor.

    I have a few suggestions, which I am posting in case others have found workarounds or have additional ideas. My apologies in advance if I have overlooked existing discussion or documentation, I didn't find these when searching "bookmarks" or "navigation" in the forum search, nor in the "New in Stata" website.

    1. an additional option for the old, temporary, bookmarks, i.e. are *not* encoded in the do-file as in previous versions. Overall, I vastly prefer the new way but occasionally it is nice to be able to have some temporary bookmarks when I am jumping around in my code.

    2. a hierarchy of bookmarks, e.g., **# as the equivalent of I, **## as I.A, **### as I.A.i, etc., and then have the navigation pane able to indent or otherwise distinguish accordingly. (of course one can do a simple version of this already by using the bookmarks labels)

    3. the ability to dock the navigation pane on the side of the do-file editor window, and/or a keyboard shortcut to jump to the navigation pane

    There also appears to be an issue with the positioning of navigation control, at least when using an external monitor, see
    https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...gation-control



    Best,
    BL

    PS - Stata 17.0 MP "born" 05 May 2021 on Windows 10

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    These are excellent suggestions which we'll investigate.
    -Chinh Nguyen

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