Document Hyperlinks

When using Emacs Speaks NONMEM, Emacs can hyperlink input and output to the appropriate files. Currently the possible options for linking are:

  • Output Files
  • Input Files
  • MSFO Files

Each of these features can be turned on or off.

Linking for control streams under PLT tools requires grep to be installed. Also under windows, if w32-browser is present the link will open up the associated program.1 Therefore if your input file is a csv file, and csv files are associated with Microsoft Excel, clicking on the input file will open that file in Microsoft Excel.

Output Files

Output files include $TABLE outputs, and FORTRAN OPEN(#,FILE='') statements.

Input Files

Input files are the $DATA statements

MSFO Files

$ESTIMATE records with an msfo file have a special link that:

  • Creates a copy of your control string in an empty buffer
  • Removes $THETA, $OMEGA, $SIGMA, and $ESTIMATION records.
  • Inserts a $MSFI record based on your msfo file. This allows you create a control stream that:
    • Predict other datasets
    • Simulate other datasets
    • Resumes the model
    • etc.

Included Files

Tools such as Pirana, copy external files to the run directory using the following syntax:

;INCLUDE=file_to_be_copied_1.ext, file2.ext, file3

Emacs Speaks NONMEM will link to these files if the option is enabled.

PLT tools

When grep is installed, and you are using PLT tools, clicking on the AllRecords.txt, FirstRecords.txt, and ExtraRecords.txt looks through the appropriate directories for files that match the current control stream and takes the most recent csv and links to that csv.

1. I also added code to use Xemacs' mswindows-shell-execute. I really don't know if EsN runs on Xemacs still.