It won't bite in practice, but the line
qui query
does nothing useful here. Almost all of the
work here is done by the single line
. di _newline(`=c(pagesize)')
although that's not easy to remember or type.
Nick
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Tom Trikalinos
> I generally agree with David's view. Nevertheless, some people -me
> counting amongst them- would like to "clear" the results window from
> time to time; depends on the mood.
> We know it's meaningless, but we do like to do it.
>
> Mingfu would probably like to see the following program. It's
> essentially a copy-paste of a code snippet posted by another
> stata list
> member whose name -I regret to admit- I fail to recall.
>
> save it as cls.ado along the adopath, and you're set.
>
>
> *! version 0.1 5Dec2005
> program define cls
> qui query
> qui loc lines = c(pagesize)
> if c(more) == "on" {
> qui set more off
> display _newline(`lines')
> qui set more on
> }
> else {
> display _newline(`lines')
> }
> end
>
>
>
>
> On Dec 4, 2005, at 8:33 PM, Svend Juul wrote:
>
> > Mingfu Liu asked:
> > ... I would like to clear up the content in the
> > "results window" in the middle of a Stata session.
> > How do I do it?
> >
> > and David answered:
> > "Why would you want to do that?!"
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I guess that you want to be able to modify the output,
> > e.g. by removing junk, before printing. That can not
> > be done in the Results window; but you can use a log
> > file. I made this simple profile.do and put it in
> > c:\ado\personal:
> >
> > log using c:\stata.log , replace
> >
> > profile.do is executed whenever you open Stata, and you
> > then have a copy of the output (text mode). If you open
> > stata.log in a text editor, you can edit it, remove junk,
> > etc. before printing. As text editor I use NoteTab Light,
> > (download for free from www.notetab.com), but there are
> > many other possibilities. Find a destription by:
> > findit text editor
> >
> > Also read -[R] log- and -[GSW] 16- (or your appropriate
> > Getting Started manual), or:
> > help log
> >
> > My suggestion above is to open a log file automatically
> > at session start, but you will meet other opinions on
> > how to use log files.
> >
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