Re: st: How to link the help file for a command to its immediate version (or generally add aliases)

[Michael McCulloch <mm@pinest.org>]

I like this approach, and it echoes a thread from last week about 
abbreviations. Will those new ado files be saved, or do they need to 
be re-invoked for each Stata session? And, if it needs to be 
re-invoked, could they all be launched by one do-file such as 
"my_abbreviations.do"?



> Spelling out a point made by Sergiy Radyakin:
>
> Suppose you write foobar.ado and want Stata to recognise
>
> foo
> foob
> fooba
>
> as abbreviations. The slow but sure way to do this is by wrapper files
>
> ---- foo.ado
> program foo
> 	foobar `0'
> end
> ----
>
> ---- foob.ado
> program foob
> 	foobar `0'
> end
> ----
>
> ---- fooba.ado
> program fooba
> 	foobar `0'
> end
> ----
>
> In other words, it is easy, if a little tedious. `0' is the way to 
> echo whatever followed the command name to the command being called.
>
> It would be good practice to include a -version- statement in each program.
>
> However, if any of the abbreviations are official Stata commands, or 
> abbreviations thereof, you will get them instead, unless in some 
> cases you mess with -adopath- (which is emphatically not 
> recommended).
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Eva Poen wrote:
>
>
> > Is it possible, for a user written command, to link the help file for
> > -command- to -commandi-? I.e., when typing -help commandi-, what
> > should show up is the help file for -command-, because it's all
> > documented in one file.
> >
> > I came across the *help_alias.maint files in the Stata installation,
> > which I think do the job for Stata's official commands. I can't see a
> > way to add aliases (any, really, also abbreviations) for non-official
> > commands.
> >
> > I'm forgetful with options, so I get to call the help files for my own
> > programs from time to time. Combined with my habit of inventing long,
> > akward names for programs, this is a lot of typing...
> >
> > Eva
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