ADOEDIT: Edit ado-file in Stata's do-file editor

If you want to use adoedit, then feel free to use Stata's command ssc install to download and install adoedit:

   ssc install adoedit, replace

Disclaimer: There is no warranty on this software either expressed or implied. This program is released under the terms and conditions of GNU General Public License.

About adoedit

Programmer: Dan Blanchette ()
Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
Durham, NC USA

Date: 06Nov2003
Last updated: 08Feb2005

Edit the ado-file that runs the specified command


adoedit cmdname




Description

adoedit attempts to edit whichever ado-file named cmdname.ado is first 
on the current adopath.  One cannot edit files 
larger than 32,000 bytes in the do-file editor, nor can one edit built-in commands. This routine is designed for use by 
those who are writing their own ado-files; users are exhorted to make a copy of any official ado-files, and to save 
modified official ado-files in the ado directory, rather than the Stata directory.
adoedit cmdname.ado
is tolerated.




After a successful edit, the discard command is issued so that Stata will load the revised ado-file.  This
will also clear any estimates from the last estimation.




If you wish to edit ado-files with a different text editor, please see
fedit and the 
texteditors modules on the 
SSC archive.



Examples

 .  adoedit tsspell




Saved Results

The adoedit command saves in r():





 
  
   
     r(adofile)
   
   
     the ado-file name and full path
   
  
 




Acknowledgements

This program grew out of previous work by:




Nicholas J. Cox, University of Durham, U.K.


and


Christopher F Baum, Boston College, USA



Also see

On-line:  doedit, 
findfile



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