shortcut to close all brackets

[Cayman Seagraves]

Hi fellow Stata users,

Is there a shortcut to close all curly brackets within a dofile? I use lots of curly brackets to organize my code, but I have to manually close them all every time I reopen the dofile. See below for an example:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Summary Stats
// ---->
//
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
{


foreach var of varlist ln_tbq post_treated post treated{
drop if missing(`var')
}

eststo clear
eststo: quietly estpost summarize ln_tbq post_treated post treated , detail


}

[Jenna Grabey]

Hi,

It seems odd that you have to close them everytime you re-open your do-file. Surely if you make sure all your brackets are closed off before you save your file then it will re-open with them al saved. For me, if I have unclosed brackets then my code won't even run.

[Nick Cox]

I agree with Jenna Grabey and indeed don't understand what the question is here. Is the problem working within the do-file or that when you re-open a do-file you find that changes you thought you had made haven't been made? When the last happens to me I have to guess that it's my fault.

What often happens that I keep tweaking a do-file and then executing the latest version. But the do-file editor won't save a file permanently unless prompted to do so.

[Cayman Seagraves]

Thank you, Nick and Jenna, for responding. I'm sorry if my question wasn't clear.

I am looking for a code folding hotkey. I use Stata 17, and I have to close all of the curly brackets each time I open a do-file, even if I save it when they are closed. I use curly brackets { } to organize and separate code for tables and figures.

[Matteo Pinna]

Same issue here, did you find help somewhere else Cayman?

[Nick Cox]

I find that when I type { its sibling } appears automatically. My reaction is to push it down a line or two. I don't know of other support for braces (curly brackets).

[Dario Maimone Ansaldo Patti]

If you want to open/close curly brackets or automatize some commands you use frequentry, i use the following:

https://www.autohotkey.com/

I generated a list of hotkeys stored in a file, which is launched every time I open stata (i did this by setting my own profile, which is launched every time I open stata).