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RE: st: Display command in Results Window in Subprogram


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Display command in Results Window in Subprogram
Date   Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:14:52 -0000

No, it is not possible. Note also that 
-set tracedepth- is popped by the 
end of a program (wide sense), so
you cannot set a default for yourself 
using profile.do. But you could do it
in each session. But you know that! 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Svend Juul
 
> Thomas Goerner wrote:
> I had a STATA question, and maybe the answer is simple.
> When creating multiple programs and subprograms (via program define)
> within the same .do file Stata does not list the actual 
> command that it
> is currently processing in the Results Window. This is as opposed to
> programming without -program define- but "sequentially" (for lack of
> better word). This obviously makes finding bugs more tedious.
> 
> Richard Williams commented:
> * There is always -set trace on-. This can overwhelm you with output,
> but can be quite useful when you are trying to see what specifically
> caused an error.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> To avoid being overwhelmed with trace output, you can:
>     set tracedepth 1
> 
> I always use that initially when debugging, and I wish I could:
>     set tracedepth 1 , permanently
> but that is not (yet?) possible.

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