In general, I can think of three cases here:
1. Commands where you have no control. Thus -summarize- offers no option
to tune this.
2. Commands where you have some control. Thus -list- offers an
-abbreviate()- option.
3. Programs you write yourself. Here you just arrange that there is
enough space for exactly the display you want.
I don't think that any global setting changes this. For example, -set
linesize- does not.
But Rose's final claim should be incorrect. Stata's variable name
abbreviations may seem cryptic, but they should not be ambiguous.
Nick
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Some of my variable names are so long that stata replace some middle
letters with "~".
For example,
su wemploycashta
the variable name will be showed as wemploycas~a
How to show all the letters? If these variable names are not showed
totally, I can not distinguish them.
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