Stata 15: Mac .do file editor issues

[Andrew Lover]

Stata 15 on a Mac (Sierra 10.12.4), I am seeing some 'glitchy' behavior.

Specifically:

• Clicking to edit on any empty line immediately makes that line jump to the top on the .do file editor- is this a new intentional feature?
• I am also seeing heavy black lines on the L-side border of the editor that then disappear with scrolling after a long pause.
• Line of text are occasionally split horizontally, with half the text offset (see screen shot).
• I am unable to add bookmarks (clicking on L gutter) to some .do files (sometimes).

Anyone else seeing this?

[eric_a_booth]

Yeah I'm seeing the jumping issue you describe - it's annoying.

[eric_a_booth]

In the meantime, I've been using this to start new do files.

It's not an ideal solution and it doesnt fix existing do-files (though I suppose you could write something similar to read in existing do-files, write a space or tab character to the start of each line (I tried highlighting my entire do file and right click and select advanced>shift right to insert a tab character at the start of each line to avoid the jumping around but it doesnt work - the dofile editor still jumps when you click those lines).

**blankdo (save as an adofile and put in personal folder and type -discard-)
**hopefully temp file to write file of spaces to avoid jumping in do editor*
 program def blankdo
syntax using/ [, NUMlines(integer 1000) REPLace OPEN]
cap file close handle1
    if `"`=substr(`"`using'"', -3, .)'"'!= ".do" local using  `using'.do
file open handle1 using `"`using'"' , write `replace'

 
forval n = 1/`numlines'  {
    file write handle1 `" "'  _newline(1)
    }
    
file close handle1

    **if open opt, then doedit the blank file
    if !mi(`"`open'"') doedit `"`using'"'
end

[Chinh Nguyen (StataCorp)]

I can't reproduce the empty line jumping problem. However, I believe that and some other issues have been fixed (one bug was the source of a few seemingly unrelated issues). A future update will address these issues.

[Andrew Lover]

Great- thanks for looking into it, and look forward to the update.

[wbuchanan]

Andrew Lover maybe updating your OS will fix it? I run 10.12.5 and haven't encountered that behavior.

[Nick Bornschein]

I run the latest OSX, but the "jump problem" is also happening.

[Chinh Nguyen (StataCorp)]

I run the latest OSX, but the "jump problem" is also happening.

Please verify that Stata 15 is up to date. We put out an update on June 19th that should've fixed the problem.