st: displaying input lines while executing loops

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I am using Stata MP 11.2 on Windows, and I'd like to come back to the
point of displaying commands (inputs) not just outputs while executing
a loop. (There was a thread on this before:
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-11/msg00666.html)

As a diligent follower of Kit Baum's advice (and many others' on this
list), I use loops all the time, not to code up analogous things
twice. But Stata just reporting barebones output does not help with
this. E.g. when I am merging in many-many files (over data sources and
over years), it is hard to keep track of the reports of the merges.

Exactly because I have much code in loops, I would not edit the
commands (in those loops) for this purpose. But is there another way?

Of course, -set trace on- gets me close, but even with -set tracedepth
1- the commands are traced in minute detail instead of just giving me
the command (input).

Thanks for any help with this,

Laszlo
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