st: RE: Whish for Stata10, or earlier

[frakt@bu.edu]

My primary wish, which I've had for a long long time is: When Stata 
halts due to some error in a do file, I wish it would display enough 
information about the location of the offending syntax to make it 
reasonably easy to find it without resorting to -trace- or other 
debugging tricks and utilities.  I'd like it to work even if the 
problem is within a loop or a program. I refer Stata developers to 
Matlab, which outputs file name and line number upon any encounter with 
a problem that causes it to halt execution of a program.

I'd also love to have automatic command-line completion.  So if, for 
example, -li x y- is unique with respect to the first six characters of 
anything in the command review history then hitting "tab" would 
complete the line with that unique prior command (which could be, e.g., 
-li x y z if a <= 47.65749 & s == 9-)

If anything like the above are currently possible, I'd love to know.  
If not, I'd love to see them in future releases or updates.

________________________________
Austin



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