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Edit an ado-file in Stata's do-file editor

        adoedit cmdname
        
Description

    adoedit attempts to edit whichever ado-file named cmdname.ado is first on
    the current adopath.  If you are using an old version of Stata, you may
    not be able to edit files larger than 32,000 bytes in the do-file editor.
    Built-in commands cannot edited no matter what.  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():
 
    Macros         
      r(adofile)          the ado-file name and full path


Author

    Dan Blanchette
    The Carolina Population Center
    University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, USA
    dan_blanchette@unc.edu


Acknowledgements

    This program grew out of previous work by:

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

    and

      Christopher F Baum, Boston College, USA

    Eric Booth suggested option to open the ado-file in whatever software is
    setup to open ".ado" file types if the file is too big to open in Stata's
    do-file editor.

Also see

    On-line: doedit findfile, fedit (if installed)