Hi Statalisters,
the question was:
While working in the command window: How can I access the last command
from within an ado in order to alter it in a specified way (without
having to retype anything) and run it again.
My example was to interchange row and column vars in a bivariate tab
command.
There is one very simple (halfway) approach to this (still requires some
manual input)
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program define tt
di "choose command"
di _request(tabcmd)
...parsing....
...rearrangement...
...run
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- Start ado (e.g. set function key F4 to tt;)
- choose recent command from review window or use "page up"-key from the
command line
- (Enter)
- Now the global $tabcmd is altered and executed.
User input is for example: F4 -> 2* PgUp -> Return (quite comfortable)
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Second, a one-click-solution that works for me (Stata 10.1 on Win XP)
but I'm not shure if it will work in all settings.
In my setting the "#review"-command can be executed from the internal
do-editor but not from my external editor. So I created an one-liner
do-file "review.do" containing "#review 2 1"
I also set function key F4 to tt1;
The basic idea is:
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Start ado (over function key)
The ado file:
- opens a log
- executes #review with "do review.do"
- closes the log
- opens log via "file open"
- reads lines (using "file read ... line" in a "while"-loop until a line
starts with "2 " (the #review number)
- copies last line to local
And then:
...parsing....
...rearrangement...
...run
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User input is: F4 (very comfortable)
Stefan
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