Date:         Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:57:41 -0500
Reply-To:     Randy Herbison <RandyHerbison@WESTAT.COM>
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From:         Randy Herbison <RandyHerbison@WESTAT.COM>
Subject:      Re: THANKS: Seek editor to add blank lines
Comments: To: Tom Frenkel <taf2@NYU.EDU>
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Tom,

Actually, the SAS Enhanced Editor does allow you to create keyboard macros
by recording keystrokes.

Start recording either by pressing Alt + Shift + R or by selecting Tools ->
Keyboard Macros -> Record New Macro.

Execute the sequence of actions to accomplish the task.

Stop recording either by pressing Alt + Shift + R or by selecting Tools ->
Keyboard Macros -> Stop Recording.


RandyHerbison@westat.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Frenkel [mailto:taf2@NYU.EDU]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 2:29 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: THANKS: Seek editor to add blank lines


To SAS-L:

I want to thank the four people who responded to my request about how to
add regularly spaced blank lines to SAS code.  Their responses were all to
SAS-L, so you could look at the archives if you want more detail.  But
here is a summary:

Venky Chakravarthy pointed me to a possibly applicable paper by SI's Paul
Grant, "Creating Code Templates in the SAS Enhanced Editor", available at:

  http://support.sas.com/sassamples/papers/0303_saseditor.pdf

Charles Patridge thought I could write a KEDIT macro, or use Ultraedit.
Alternatively, he suggested writing a simple SAS program.  This last idea
would, to me, seem worthwhile if there were thousands of lines involved,
but like the code-template suggestion above, might perhaps be "overkill"
for my case of a couple hundred lines.

Jim Groeneveld suggested using the macro capability of the DOS (!) editor
PC-Write.  He also mentioned the SAS-program idea.

And finally, Randy Herbison explained how to create a keyboard macro
within the SAS Enhanced Editor.  Like the macro potential of KEDIT and
Ultraedit mentioned above, this seems useful ... except ideally I would
like an editor that could *record* the macro just from keystrokes, without
haveing to select commands from a command list!

I haven't yet have had time to follow up on the above ideas, but will do
so in near future ... and will let y'all know when/if I find a spiffy
solution!  Thanks again and best,

        --Tom
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Tom Frenkel                     email: taf2@nyu.edu
Center for Health & Public Service Research
New York University
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