Installing ado-mode the Hard Way

• Grab the files from GitHub, https://github.com/louabill/ado-mode.
• You will end up with a git repo folder called ado-mode
• or grab https://louabill.org/Stata/ado-mode-1.19.5.2.zip, and unzip it.
• You will end up with a folder named ado-mode-1.19.5.2.
• If you like keeping old versions, leave the name alone. If you like things with constant names, strip the end off the folder name, and call it ado-mode. The rest of the instructions assume you've called it ado-mode.

• Put the ado-mode folder in a place where Emacs will find it.
• If you are installing this for yourself only, put the ado-mode folder in the place you keep your other Emacs customizations.
  • Some versions of Emacs have a place dedicated for user-installed packages—if your Emacs has it, you can find it with C-h v user-emacs-directory.
  • If you have no such folder, make an emacs folder in a useful place.
• After you have a place to hold customizations, move the ado-mode folder into it, and remember where you put the ado-mode folder. (For the instructions, I'll assume you put things in this non-standard place:/Universal/Custom/emacs/ado-mode.)
• Add the following two lines to your initialization file:
  (add-to-list 'load-path "/Universal/Custom/emacs/ado-mode/lisp")
(require 'ado-mode)
  (The initialization file used to be called the .emacs file, but what is named on your system depends on the type of Emacs you are running. If you are unfamiliar with such files, open up Emacs and use C-h i to bring up info, then type m em RET m init file (emacese for menu emacs, and then menu init file) to read the docs on initialization files.))

Now go back to the installation page to continue.