Not curious at all, but documented and
reasonable.
It is explained in the very last
place I looked, [U] 7.2, although I should
have looked there first. [R] more and [P] more
did not say more on this point.
In essence,
. set more off
or for that matter
. set more on
is a local action. It holds until
countermanded, or until the current process
finishes, whichever is the sooner. The
current "process" here means an interactive
session, a do file or a program. Evidently,
profile.do is just a .do file, and its
special character does not affect this
behaviour.
To see why this is what you really want,
consider that you call a program which
calls a program ... and so on, and the
innermost program has
. set more on
If that were a global setting, then
some innermost routine could affect
the behaviour of all the programs
of Stata above it. That would be the wrong
way round. Local -set-ting is exactly
right as the behaviour.
As Svend Juul pointed out, if you really want
this behaviour, you want a batch job.
Nick
[email protected]
Alan Neustadtl
I have observed a curious behavior with "set more off". When I use
that command in my profile.do file, it does not work. I set it off
permanently, but I was still curious about the behavior. Any ideas?
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