Resetting the environment

[Euslaner]

Sorry to trouble anyone. I have a new computer and have downloaded Stata 16 anew. Is there a way to revert to the settings I had previously. I tried to reset reveal codes to F11 but I could find no way to change the default setting (as well a other codes). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

Ric Uslaner

[Stephen Jenkins]

Euslaner It's unclear to me precisely what you want to do ... but my guess is that you need to create a "profile.do" file that sits in the directory that your Stata opens in by default. And then in the profile.do, you can have commands that map function keys to specific tasks. Re mapping, a quick web search took me to http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnn...uals13/u10.pdf. In your profile.do, you can also reset the default ado directories and do other things. E.g., my profile.do includes lines like the following

sysdir set OLDPLACE "d:\home\stephenj\ado"

set varabbrev off, permanent // essential for reproducible code

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

If you mean resetting (or transferring) your preferences for the Stata windows and some of the options for its behaviour, those are governed, at least in Windows, by registry keys. You're better off to simply redo those yourself and then save the profile.

[Euslaner]

Euslaner It's unclear to me precisely what you want to do ... but my guess is that you need to create a "profile.do" file that sits in the directory that your Stata opens in by default. And then in the profile.do, you can have commands that map function keys to specific tasks. Re mapping, a quick web search took me to http://chrome-extension://efaidnbmnn...uals13/u10.pdf. In your profile.do, you can also reset the default ado directories and do other things. E.g., my profile.do includes lines like the following

sysdir set OLDPLACE "d:\home\stephenj\ado"

set varabbrev off, permanent // essential for reproducible code

If I did this would it be possible to include in profile.do statements such as:

set F1 = open
F2 = search

etc or wouldn't this work? Thanks for any help.

I do have another query. I have written an ado file that I have added to my personal.ado file. It is called pf.ado. I have transferred it to my new computer on the personal.ado directory but get the response:

pf pid2 evangclx
command pf is unrecognized
r(199);
where pf is a variation on the probit command that automatically gives changes in probabilities. Is there a way to use this ado file? Thanks again.

[Nick Cox]

The second question is easier for me to try to answer.

Type

adopath

to see where Stata is inclined to look for your code files (ado and sthlp and any others). EIther you ensure that those files of yours are moved to one of those places, or you add a suitable place to the adopath.

help adopath

says more.

On the first question, macro list yields a list like this, at least for Stata 19.50 for WIndows, as I open it: your Stata may differ slightly.

. mac li
F12:            search
S_level:        95
F1:             help advice;
F2:             describe;
F7:             save
F8:             use
S_ADO:          BASE;SITE;.;PERSONAL;PLUS;OLDPLACE
S_StataMP:      MP
S_StataSE:      SE
S_OS:           Windows
S_OSDTL:        64-bit
S_MACH:         PC (64-bit x86-64)

You can define global macros for what happens with other function keys. I've never seen the point of this myself and -- more importantly for you -- I can't remember where this functiinality is documented. Otherwise put, it is easier for me to remember describe than to remember that I want describe and that pressing F2 gets me there.

[Stephen Jenkins]

Euslaner #4: you appear not to have followed the link to a manual entry that I provided (where there was/is an answer to your question). Here's the link again: https://www.stata.com/manuals13/u10.pdf. The top of the page has text like

If you wanted F3 to mean list, you could type . global F3 "list " In the above, F3 refers to the letter F followed by 3, not the F3 key. Note the capitalization and spacing of the command.

and then continues with discussion of variants on this, and mentions "profile.do"

[Euslaner]

Thanks Nick and Stephen