Stata Syntax Highlighting for Jupyter Lab 4

Neither jupyterlab-stata-highlight nor jupyterlab_stata_highlight2 works on Jupyter Lab 4. This is a workaround that needs to be applied everytime Jupyter Lab is updated.

1. Create and activate conda environment.

   conda create -n jupyterlab4 pip nodejs -c conda-forge
   conda activate jupyterlab4

2. Install Jupyter Lab 4.

   conda install jupyterlab -c conda-forge

   or

   pip install jupyterlab

3. Set up the staging files. Make sure you are the owner of the environment, otherwise this will fail.

   jupyter lab build --dev-build

4. Download Stata syntax highlighting Javascript file.

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ticoneva/codemirror-legacy-stata/main/stata.js -P $CONDA_PREFIX/share/jupyter/lab/staging/node_modules/@codemirror/legacy-modes/mode/

5. Modify $CONDA_PREFIX/share/jupyter/lab/staging/node_modules/@jupyterlab/codemirror/lib/language.js. Search for Squirrel and add the following entry after that one:

           {
                name: 'stata',
                displayName: trans.__('Stata'),
                mime: 'text/x-stata',
                extensions: ['do','ado'],
                async load() {
                    const m = await import('@codemirror/legacy-modes/mode/stata');
                    return legacy(m.stata);
                }
            },

6. Run jupyter lab build again.