Date:         Fri, 11 Apr 2003 10:08:06 -0700
Reply-To:     Pete Lund <pete.lund@NWCSR.COM>
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From:         Pete Lund <pete.lund@NWCSR.COM>
Subject:      Re: Adding blank lines every 5: KEDIT can do!
Comments: To: Tom Frenkel <taf2@NYU.EDU>
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Hi Tom-
  You can do this easily in SAS in the Enhanced Editor.  You can set up
keyboard macros from Tools...Keyboard Macros...Macros.

  Select Create and choose the following steps:
Move cursor to column 1
Move cursor down
Move cursor down
Move cursor down
Move cursor down
Move cursor down
Move cursor to end of line
Insert carriage return
Move cursor to column 1

  Give it a name and then assign a key - can be a function key or any other
key or combination (ctrl-, alt-).

  Moving the cursor to the column 1 are not always necessary, but will keep
things neat if you have auto-indent turned on.

  Every time you hit your assigned key SAS will go down five lines and
insert a new line.

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-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU]On Behalf Of Tom
Frenkel
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 1:14 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Adding blank lines every 5: KEDIT can do!


To SAS-L:

A week or two ago, I asked SAS-L for a way to automate the adding of
regularly spaced blank lines (for ease in proofreading).  I just
discovered that this is easy to do with KEDIT for Windows, my editor of
choice!  I simply define a KEDIT macro, assigning it to a PF key:

        define F7 'down 5' ; i

Then every time I press F7, KEDIT will obediently go down another 5 lines
and insert a blank line.

If I have a really long file, I could make a loop out of it, e.g.

        define F7 do j=1 to 100 ; 'down 5' ; i ; end

Now one press of F7 would take care of 100 blank-line insertions!  Pretty
neat ...

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