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Re: st: profile.do file


From   Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: profile.do file
Date   Wed, 27 Nov 2013 11:17:20 -0600

Glenn, my F4 shortcut is going to kill all of these! [evil laughter]

I found it problematic to put programs in the profile.do, as I
repeatedly -discard- or -program drop _all- within my do-files, just
to make sure that they can run fully independently on their own legs.

-- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (ASA, SSC)
-- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI
-- Opinions stated in this email are mine only, and do not reflect the
position of my employer
-- http://stas.kolenikov.name



On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Glenn Hoetker <[email protected]> wrote:
> My profile.do consists of several shortcuts for things I either do repeatedly or can never remember the context for:
>
>
> // To display all the dta files in the current directory
> capture program drop dta
> program define dta
>         ls *.dta
> end
>
> // To display all the do files in the current directory
> capture program drop ddo
> program define ddo
>         ls *.do
> end
>
> // To open the current directory in the Finder (may need to be tweaked for other than Mac)
> capture program drop oo
> program define oo
>         !open .
> end
>
>
> //To turn trace on.  Optionally, "stn #" sets tracedepth to #. Otherwise, it leaves it unchanged.
> capture program drop stn
> program define stn
>         if "`1'" != "" {
>          set tracedepth `1'
>         }
>         set trace on
> end
>
> //Turn trace off
> capture program drop stf
> program define stf
>         set trace off
> end
>
> //Edit the profile.do file, since I can never remember where it is
> capture program drop editprofile
> program define editprofile
>          doedit "/Users/ghoetker/Library/Application Support/Stata/profile.do"
> end
>
>
>
> Glenn Hoetker
> Arizona State University | W. P. Carey School of Business
> Dean's Council Distinguished Scholar & Associate Professor
> Affiliate Professor   Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law
> Senior Sustainability Scholar   Global Institute of Sustainability
> Faculty Fellow   Center for Science, Law & Innovation
> [email protected]  | http://hoetker.faculty.asu.edu | 480-965-4566
>
>
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