annoying buggy behavior of editor's auto-completion
by Sven Schreiber
Hi, the following behavior has annoyed me for a long time already, but
it was kind of hard to describe. Now let me try with a very complete and
small example.
Open the script editor with a new (empty) script. In the preferences
have all editor options activated (=ticked), including auto-complete.
Type the first line:
series a <return>
OK, go on to type:
series damn
For me with this fairly recent Windows version after typing the first
two letters "da" I get a pop-up suggesting me the word "series". Since
that's not what I want I ignore it. Fine - but then after finishing the
word "damn" I hit <return> to get a line break. However, the editor
thinks I want to accept its suggestion and replaces "damn" with
"series", so what I get is:
series series
(and no line break)
This is a quite distracting PITA. Is this a GTK problem? An obvious
workaround is to switch off auto-completion, or get used to typing a
superfluous space at the end before the return.
thanks
Sven
5 years, 1 month
"cointjoh" as alias for coint2
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
what do you think about introducing a more self-explanatory command
keyword for the coint2 command? I would suggest "cointjoh", hinting at
Johansen's name. The "2" in coint2 is purely historical and
path-dependent, and quite opaque. But of course coint2 can stay for
backwards compatibility?
(It seems coint2 is the only such name with arbitrary numbers, among the
commands.)
thanks
sven
5 years, 1 month
status of X-13(-arima), and documentation
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
is there a summary somewhere about what works and what doesn't with
X-13, as opposed to X-12?
I know that on the main gretl web page --plus the Windows and Mac pages
there-- X-13 is offered for installation. From time to time there is
some discussion on the mailing lists on how to use it as a drop-in
replacement for the older X-12. But gretl's documentation basically
never mentions it it seems. Examples:
- web page: http://gretl.sourceforge.net/x12a/x12a.html
- built-in strings: $x12a and $x12adir
- estimation option --x-12-arima to the "arma" command; and associated
command ref plus section 31.2 in the guide
- menu entry Variable/X-12-Arima analysis
My understanding is that all this works when the user sets the path to
the installed X-13 right. Is this summary correct? Is there any
advantage these days to use the older X-12 instead of X-13?
Especially if the last answer is no, I guess all the references above
could be changed to refer to x13. If coexistence is wanted I could
mention this in the guide somewhere. But maybe I'm missing something.
thanks
sven
5 years, 1 month
Proposed Documenation Change-> get_summary()
by riles＠triton.net
Hello
for the get_summary() function description I think it would be helpful if the description for the list parameter added some more detail. Bellow is the current description and the proposed description.
Current
list list of variables to process.
Proposed change
list list of variables to process. were list[0] is the total number of variables in the list and list[1].....list[n] are there index location of the variables in dset
It took me some time to figure this out, but after reading through the code I think this is how it works.
riley
5 years, 1 month
rename small "extra" dir in git?
by Sven Schreiber
Hi,
would it be possible to rename the "extra" top-level directory in the
git repo? It's just a couple of KB and given the existence of
addons/extra I find it a little confusing. AFAICS it contains examples
how to interact with (lib)gretl at the C level, so perhaps it could be
named "APIexamples" or "interact" or something like that.
thanks
sven
5 years, 1 month
