Allan Reese <[email protected]> asks:
> I have assumed until now that search would return a superset of
> help information. In other words, a command found by help would
> also be found by search. It seems this is not true: "search
> datatypes" found no hits but "help datatypes" did.
>
> "search data types" did a better job for my need.
>
> Should search be made a guaranteed superset?
For command hlp files I believe this is already true
search areg
search cnsreg
search xtlogit
...
For hlp files that are on a topic instead of a particular command
it is not always true, but I will see about getting it to be so.
One of the upcoming ado updates for Stata 9 will have the key words
added to catch these topical help files as well.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Ken Higbee [email protected]
StataCorp 1-800-STATAPC
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* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
