This Statalist thread from a few months ago started by Nick Mosely asked about working with hundreds of macros and eventually got onto the topic of expanding or unabbreviating (see -help unab- for the varlist version of this idea) macro lists. Based on my posts in that thread, I recently posted -mac_unab- to the SSC Archives to help with this problem. -mac_unab- is still a bit of a kludge solution, but I haven't figured out a better approach ( nor did anyone suggest a better approach ). The biggest issues with mac_unab, which I hope to find better solutions for, include: 1. When you run mac_unab, it will print all the contents of the -macro list- command in the Results window. This might be desirable for some, but I'd like to be able to toggle it on/off. Currently, the way I've gathered the macros is via a log, so there's no way to avoid printing the -mac list- output each time -mac_unab- is run. 2. Currently, the program will only match macros with the patt
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