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Re: st: wishlist
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: wishlist
Date
Tue, 6 Aug 2013 23:29:57 +0100
Really? Any connotations should be considered purely fortuitous. The
name is a contraction of -s-ave and -exit-.
Nick
Nick
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On 6 August 2013 23:20, Joe Canner <[email protected]> wrote:
> If nothing else, such a program has the advantage of having a memorable name... :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 6:02 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: wishlist
>
> Presumably this happens if you type
>
> exit, clear
>
> but realise that you didn't mean it. Faced with your mild curses, Stata (if it could engage in repartee) would then merely quip that it did what you asked.
>
> I guess you want a command rather than a do-file. Is this something like the command?
>
> program sexit
> version 8.2
> save, replace
> exit
> end
>
> It's deliberate that this fails if there is no data in memory because then it fails to do what is intended, -save- data and -exit-.
>
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> On 6 August 2013 22:39, Lachenbruch, Peter <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a small request (which never is?) When I exit Stata I have
>> often forgotten to save my changes - I have the chance to lose my changes or go back (click no). I'd like a third option - save changes and exit. It should be an easy do file...
>>
>>
>> Peter A. Lachenbruch,
>> Professor (retired)
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