I am not clear what the real underlying problem is here,
but I wouldn't try to do anything like this using -display-.
If you want a standard header in a .log, for example, then
you could put text in a file and then just -type- the file
so that its content was displayed.
Otherwise, you could use -file- to read and/or write blocks
of text.
Or, just keep a template file and use that as the start
for new .do files.
Nick
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Clinton Thompson
> I've searched the help files & online documentation, as well as
> conducted a cursory search of the Statalist archives, all to no avail,
> so I'm posting my query to all of you. And with that, my query: I
> want to write an .ado file that, when invoked, will open up a blank
> .do file [doedit] then paste a bunch of standard text (via a series of
> -display- commands) into the .do file. This is sort of what I'm
> envisioning:
>
> /* ***************... *************** */
> /* Program Name: ************* */
> /* ...so forth and so on... */
> /***************...**************** */
>
> clear
> version 9.2
> set more off
> capture log close
>
> ---- snip -----
>
> I can generate the above via a series of -display- commands but where
> I get confused is HOW can an .ado file (I'm sure it can be done,
> albeit I'm at a loss as to how...) paste this into a blank .do file
> instead of in the output window?!
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