Date:         Sun, 18 May 1997 11:52:12 +0100
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: Sas for WIndows Editor

In article <5lh1q4$h6b@darkstar.ucsc.edu>, David Michael Wright
<david@cats.ucsc.edu> writes
>Can someone at SAS tell me if they are going to bring their editor
>into conformance with Windows? I was very disapointed at so few
>improvements were made with 6.12.  Is there a way to integrate one's
>own editor into SAS?
>
<flame>
Since Microsoft Windows applications seldom show conformance
with themselves, which flavour would you prefer?
<flame off>
 
Within the far richer language of the environment of SAS
any text in the clipboard may be submitted for execution
by issuing the command
                        gsub buffer=default
So using your own editor, as you prefer it
(do you know all the potential of the SAS text editor?),
then copy the code you wish to submit to the clipboard,
and then issue that    gsub    command inside SAS.
 
Doesn't this example demonstrate, that SAS is not trying to
replace your preferred services, but add the functionality
you need and can't get anywhere else!
 
APOLOGIES
1   I'm not at SAS
2   I'm sorry you got me on a subject I feel strongly about.
--
Peter Crawford           wish I'd thought of it before Jim
                         Peter@crawfordsoftware.demon.co.uk