Re: st: profile.do file

[Glenn Hoetker <Glenn.Hoetker@asu.edu>]

Yes, that would be a much better idea.  

Interesting how inertia builds up over time.  These items were put in long, long ago, before I ever thought of writing my own separate program as an .ado file.  The profile seemed easier.

Guess I have a short project for the holidays.

GPH

Glenn Hoetker 
Arizona State University | W. P. Carey School of Business 
Dean's Council Distinguished Scholar & Associate Professor 
Affiliate Professor   Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law 
Senior Sustainability Scholar   Global Institute of Sustainability 
Faculty Fellow   Center for Science, Law & Innovation 
Glenn.Hoetker@asu.edu  | http://hoetker.faculty.asu.edu | 480-965-4566 

On Nov 27, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:

> As Glenn expects to remember the names of the programs he defines,
> there is no loss and some gain in just defining them in separate
> files.
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
> 
> 
> On 27 November 2013 17:17, Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Glenn, my F4 shortcut is going to kill all of these! [evil laughter]
>> 
>> I found it problematic to put programs in the profile.do, as I
>> repeatedly -discard- or -program drop _all- within my do-files, just
>> to make sure that they can run fully independently on their own legs.
>> 
>> -- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (ASA, SSC)
>> -- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI
>> -- Opinions stated in this email are mine only, and do not reflect the
>> position of my employer
>> -- http://stas.kolenikov.name
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Glenn Hoetker <Glenn.Hoetker@asu.edu> wrote:
>>> My profile.do consists of several shortcuts for things I either do repeatedly or can never remember the context for:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> // To display all the dta files in the current directory
>>> capture program drop dta
>>> program define dta
>>>        ls *.dta
>>> end
>>> 
>>> // To display all the do files in the current directory
>>> capture program drop ddo
>>> program define ddo
>>>        ls *.do
>>> end
>>> 
>>> // To open the current directory in the Finder (may need to be tweaked for other than Mac)
>>> capture program drop oo
>>> program define oo
>>>        !open .
>>> end
>>> 
>>> 
>>> //To turn trace on.  Optionally, "stn #" sets tracedepth to #. Otherwise, it leaves it unchanged.
>>> capture program drop stn
>>> program define stn
>>>        if "`1'" != "" {
>>>         set tracedepth `1'
>>>        }
>>>        set trace on
>>> end
>>> 
>>> //Turn trace off
>>> capture program drop stf
>>> program define stf
>>>        set trace off
>>> end
>>> 
>>> //Edit the profile.do file, since I can never remember where it is
>>> capture program drop editprofile
>>> program define editprofile
>>>         doedit "/Users/ghoetker/Library/Application Support/Stata/profile.do"
>>> end
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Glenn Hoetker
>>> Arizona State University | W. P. Carey School of Business
>>> Dean's Council Distinguished Scholar & Associate Professor
>>> Affiliate Professor   Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law
>>> Senior Sustainability Scholar   Global Institute of Sustainability
>>> Faculty Fellow   Center for Science, Law & Innovation
>>> Glenn.Hoetker@asu.edu  | http://hoetker.faculty.asu.edu | 480-965-4566
>>> 
>>> 
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