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?!"
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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.
