st: Re: editing adofiles

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

ssc install adoedit
adoedit foo...

You should not edit Stata's own ado files (those in the Stata folder); 
save them as, e.g., foo2.ado in your _own_ ado directory (e.g. 
~/ado/personal) and change the program define therein from foo to foo2.

You cannot use adoedit (and the do/ado-file editor) on large ado-files, 
those over 32K. For that have a look at the SSC item "Texteditors", 
which discusses alternatives for all platforms. Many of the text 
editors out there will colorize/colourise Stata syntax.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Feb 5, 2005, at 2:33 AM, April wrote:


> Dear Statalisters,
>
>         How does one edit an ado file?
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