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Re: st: RE: Doh! Command line variable name expansion
I'm one of those longtime *NIX users who kept trying to make
this happen in Stata until one day amazingly it did.
Maarten Buis wrote:
The oldest version I have on my computer is Stata 8 (I use it to test if a
program works on Stata 8 if I claim it does), and the tab trick works
there as well (and I was unaware of it till now as well)
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of David Elliott
Sent: donderdag 23 augustus 2007 15:48
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: Doh! Command line variable name expansion
I've been using Stata for years and never noticed this. I was typing
a command and had part of a variable name typed and hit TAB rather
than the intended 'q' and the variable name was completed for me. As
long as you type enough to uniquely identify the variable you can hit
TAB and have it unabbreviated.
Is this something new that was snuck in or have I been asleep at the
wheel all this time? I haven't been able to find mention of it,
although my search of the manuals and help (using -hsearch
unabbreviate- and -hsearch command line- and -hsearch tab-) was not
exhaustive.
If it is new - then thanks Stata! I've always called Stata the stats
package for lazy people, now you can be even lazier ;-)
--
David Elliott
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